guerre
\ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“guerre” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #316 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #316
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conflit durable entre deux peuples ou nations qui implique la mobilisation d’armes.
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 | guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guerre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerre is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for guerre, with forms such as "geurre", "gguerre", and "guere". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gueule", "guerres", "guerrier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guerre, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E.
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.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geurre,gguerre,guere,guerer,gurere,ugerre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guerre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “guerre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gueule” - see the side-by-side comparison. guerre vs gueule
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.