guérite
\ɡe.ʁit\
The verdict
“guérite” is uncommon French (frequency #75,743 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,743
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit abri pour les militaires, policiers en faction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerite · guérite · French
guérite · rank #75,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,743
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gurney
Nearest frequency peer: gurney (-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 « guérite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guingampais
Guingampais
24,262 corpus weight
- guinéennes
guinéennes
24,261 corpus weight
- gurney
gurney
24,259 corpus weight
- guérite
guérite
24,258 corpus weight
- Gwendal
Gwendal
24,257 corpus weight
- géolocaliser
géolocaliser
24,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guérite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « guérite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guérite is uncommon French at frequency #75,743 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡe.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guérite, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guérite, spelled G-U-É-R-I-T-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guérite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si quelqu’un, du haut d’une guérite élevée, s’amusait à considérer le genre humain, comme les poètes disent que Jupiter le fait quelquefois, quelle foule de maux ne verrait-il pas assaillir de toutes parts la vie des misérables mortels.
Je redoutai de me retrouver dans cette atmosphère enivrante où l’extase était contagieuse. Chacun aurait éprouvé comme moi l’envie de se précipiter dans l’infini, de même que les soldats se tuaient tous dans la guérite où s’était suicidé l’un d’eux au camp de Boulogne. On sait que Napoléon fut obligé de faire brûler ce bois, dépositaire d’idées arrivées à…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).