guérillas

\ɡe.ʁi.ja\

/\ɡe.ʁi.ja\/ noun

The verdict

“guérillas” is uncommon French (frequency #55,326 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,326
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de guérilla.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guerillas · guérillas · French

guérillas · rank #55,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,326
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gustatives

Nearest frequency peer: gustatives (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « guérillas »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guérillas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guérillas
PropertyValue
Headwordguérillas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡe.ʁi.ja\
Letters9
Frequency rank#55,326
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « guérillas » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).guérillastombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « gustatives » (#55,325), « gémissant » (#55,327), « gustatif » (#55,324). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guérillas » est au #55,326. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guérillas is uncommon French at frequency #55,326 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡe.ʁi.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de guérilla.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for guérillas, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guérillas, spelled G-U-É-R-I-L-L-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de guérilla.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how guérillas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les guérillas doivent être prêtes à combiner leurs efforts avec ceux d’autres groupes révolutionnaires, même s’ils ont des méthodes différentes.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guérillas"?
"guérillas" is spelled G-U-É-R-I-L-L-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡe.ʁi.ja\.
What does "guérillas" mean?
As a noun, "guérillas" means: Pluriel de guérilla.
How do you pronounce "guérillas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guérillas" is \ɡe.ʁi.ja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guérillas" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guérillas", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list