guérisseuse
\ɡe.ʁi.søz\
The verdict
“guérisseuse” is uncommon French (frequency #59,325 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,325
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui prétend guérir, qui fait profession de guérir par des moyens empiriques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerisseuse · guérisseuse · French
guérisseuse · rank #59,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,325
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guyancourt
Nearest frequency peer: Guyancourt (-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 « guérisseuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guano
guano
40,679 corpus weight
- guillet
guillet
40,678 corpus weight
- Guyancourt
Guyancourt
40,677 corpus weight
- guérisseuse
guérisseuse
40,676 corpus weight
- génocidaires
génocidaires
40,675 corpus weight
- géodésique
géodésique
40,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guérisseuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guérisseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.ʁi.søz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guérisseuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guérisseuse is uncommon French at frequency #59,325 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡe.ʁi.søz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui prétend guérir, qui fait profession de guérir par des moyens empiriques.".
guérisseuse has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guérisseuse, spelled G-U-É-R-I-S-S-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui prétend guérir, qui fait profession de guérir par des moyens empiriques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guérisseuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoique très nettement perceptibles dans le discours, ces oppositions théoriques servant à métaphoriser une frontière inaliénable fonctionnent à l’insu des malades, probablement aussi de la guérisseuse.
Prières musulmanes, pharmacopée traditionnelle, cérémonies de désenvoûtement: la guérisseuse conjugue ces méthodes dans un pays majoritairement musulman aux infrastructures de santé défaillantes et où les croyances traditionnelles restent vivaces.
This word in other languages
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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