guerre de position
\ɡɛʁ də po.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“guerre de position” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Système de combats où les deux adversaires s’efforcent de maintenir leurs organisations défensives et de réduire celles de l’ennemi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerre de position |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ də po.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guerre de position” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerre de position is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛʁ də po.zi.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Système de combats où les deux adversaires s’efforcent de maintenir leurs organisations défensives et de réduire celles de l’ennemi.".
guerre de position doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guerre de position, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Système de combats où les deux adversaires s’efforcent de maintenir leurs organisations défensives et de réduire celles de l’ennemi.
Antonyms
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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Using “guerre de position”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.