guerre de clocher
The verdict
“guerre de clocher” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Guerre civile pour des causes religieuses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerre de clocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ də klɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guerre de clocher” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerre de clocher is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛʁ də klɔ.ʃe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for guerre de clocher in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de clocher, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Guerre civile pour des causes religieuses.
- 2Ensemble de petites jalousies mesquines, de luttes imbéciles, pour des motifs futiles, entre des habitants de villes ou de villages plus ou moins distants, ou entre deux personnes ou deux groupes de personnes appartenant à même ensemble.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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