guerres

/\ɡɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,615

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

guerres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de guerre. Pronounced \ɡɛʁ\. It ranks #3,615 in French word frequency. Often confused with gueules and guerrier.

Key facts for guerres
PropertyValue
Headwordguerres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,615
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of guerres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for guerres is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,615 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de guerre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for guerres, with forms such as "geurres", "gguerres", and "guerers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "gueules", "guerrier", "guerriers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 guerres, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de guerre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: geurres,gguerres,guerers,gueres,guerress,guerrse,gureres,ugerres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guerres

Misspelling Variants of "guerres"

geurres7gguerres8guerers7gueres6guerress8guerrse7gureres7ugerres7
Misspelling Variants of "guerres"

Frequency rank: #3,615 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guerres"?
"guerres" is spelled G-U-E-R-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɛʁ\.
What does "guerres" mean?
As a noun, "guerres" means: Pluriel de guerre.
What words are commonly confused with "guerres"?
"guerres" is commonly confused with "gueules", "guerrier", "guerriers". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guerres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guerres" is \ɡɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guerres" come from?
"guerres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.