guérite
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#75,743
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
guérite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit abri pour les militaires, policiers en faction. Pronounced \ɡe.ʁit\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guérite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guérite is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡe.ʁit\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,743 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for guérite in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is guérite, spelled G-U-É-R-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit abri pour les militaires, policiers en faction.
- 2Cabane de chantier.
- 3Corbeille servant d’abri aux petits animaux de compagnie.
- 4Échauguette, généralement placée à l'angle d'un bastion, permettant à un seul soldat de surveiller les alentours.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #75,743 in French
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