guerrier
\ɡɛ.ʁje\
The verdict
“guerrier” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,404 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #8,404
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la guerre.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɛ.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guerrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerrier is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛ.ʁje\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,404 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for guerrier, with forms such as "geurrier", "gguerrier", and "guerier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "guerriers", "guerrière", "guerrières", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guerrier, spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la guerre.
- 2Qui est porté à la guerre ; qui est propre à la guerre.
- 3Qui a l’allure, l’apparence d’un homme de guerre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geurrier,gguerrier,guerier,guerirer,guerreir,guerrierr,guerrire,gurerier,ugerrier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guerrier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “guerrier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡɛ.ʁje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “guerriers” - see the side-by-side comparison. guerrier vs guerriers
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.