guerre civile
\ɡɛʁ si.vil\
The verdict
“guerre civile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guerre entre citoyens d’un même État ou entre citoyens et le gouvernement, ou l’armée, de leur État.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerre-civile · guerre civile · French
guerre civile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerre civile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ si.vil\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
guerre civile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɛʁ si.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Guerre entre citoyens d’un même État ou entre citoyens et le gouvernement, ou l’armée, de leur État.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guerre civile, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is guerre civile, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E- -C-I-V-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Guerre entre citoyens d’un même État ou entre citoyens et le gouvernement, ou l’armée, de leur État.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guerre civile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a remarqué plus d’une fois que les États qui sortaient des guerres civiles ont été très supérieurs à leurs ennemis, car tout est soldat dans une guerre civile.
Dans ce charmant district de la joyeuse Angleterre qu’arrose le Don, s’étendait, aux jours reculés, une vaste forêt […] ; là, furent livrées plusieurs des batailles désespérées qui ensanglantèrent les guerres civiles des Deux-Roses ; […]
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.