guerre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#316
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
guerre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Conflit durable entre deux peuples ou nations qui implique la mobilisation d’armes. Pronounced \ɡɛʁ\. It ranks #316 in French word frequency. Often confused with gueule and guerres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #316 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for guerre, with forms such as "geurre", "gguerre", and "guere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gueule", "guerres", "guerrier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 guerre, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conflit durable entre deux peuples ou nations qui implique la mobilisation d’armes.
- 2Situation de conflit entre deux ou plusieurs États faisant suite à une déclaration de guerre par l'un d'eux envers le ou les autres et mentionnant un casus belli. Note d’usage : la guerre étant interdite par la Charte des Nations unies, un État s'engageant dans un conflit aura tendance à utiliser d'autres formulations comme par exemple : « conflit armé », « légitime défense préventive » ou « opération militaire spéciale ».
- 3Art militaire, stratégie, polémologie, tactique déployées pour gérer un conflit militaire.
- 4Suite d’affrontements armés ne s’intégrant pas dans un conflit entre deux nations ou deux peuples.
- 5Action de grande ampleur pour une cause ou contre un phénomène.
- 6Affrontement sociopolitique, intellectuel ou professionnel dans le but d’obtenir un avantage matériel ou intangible.
- 7Action violente et continue, en parlant des prédateurs sur leurs proies.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geurre,gguerre,guere,guerer,gurere,ugerre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guerre
Misspelling Variants of "guerre"
Frequency rank: #316 in French
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Nearby French words
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