guerre étrangère
\ɡɛ.ʁ‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“guerre étrangère” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guerre contre un pays étranger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerre-etrangere · guerre étrangère · French
guerre étrangère · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 étrangère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛ.ʁ‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guerre étrangère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guerre étrangère is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɛ.ʁ‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Guerre contre un pays étranger.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for guerre étrangère, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 étrangère, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E- -É-T-R-A-N-G-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Guerre contre un pays étranger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guerre étrangère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En présence de tous ces dangers, la Convention, exaltée par le péril, ne songe plus qu'au salut public : […]. Elle fera tête à la guerre étrangère à la frontière, à la guerre civile au dedans ; jamais son énergie ne se lassera ; […]
Antonyms
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