guerra
\ɡɛ.ʁa\
The verdict
“guerra” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,371
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de guerrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerra · guerra · French
guerra · rank #42,371 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grunge
Nearest frequency peer: grunge (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « guerra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gravitent
gravitent
57,633 corpus weight
- groups
groups
57,632 corpus weight
- grunge
grunge
57,631 corpus weight
- guerra
guerra
57,630 corpus weight
- Guggenheim
Guggenheim
57,629 corpus weight
- génocides
génocides
57,627 corpus weight
What this shows « guerra » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɛ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guerra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around guerra (IPA \ɡɛ.ʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,371 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de guerrer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for guerra, with forms such as "geurra", "gguerra", and "guera". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "guerre", "guetta", "guerres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is guerra, spelled G-U-E-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de guerrer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geurra
- gguerra
- guera
- guerar
- gurera
- ugerra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guerra - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guerra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).