guérillas
\ɡe.ʁi.ja\
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
- Guillotière
Guillotière
44,679 corpus weight
- guinées
guinées
44,678 corpus weight
- gustatif
gustatif
44,677 corpus weight
- gustatives
gustatives
44,676 corpus weight
- guérillas
guérillas
44,675 corpus weight
- gémissant
gémissant
44,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guérillas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guérillas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.ʁi.ja\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guérillas » en français
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
- 1Pluriel de guérilla.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guérillas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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