guerroyer
\ɡɛ.ʁwa.je\
The verdict
“guerroyer” is uncommon French (frequency #84,856 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,856
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer son temps à faire des opérations de guerre plus nombreuses que méthodiques et sans grande envergure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerroyer · guerroyer · French
guerroyer · rank #84,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,856
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guetté
Nearest frequency peer: guetté (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « guerroyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gringe
gringe
15,149 corpus weight
- Grohl
Grohl
15,148 corpus weight
- guerroyer
guerroyer
15,145 corpus weight
- guetté
guetté
15,144 corpus weight
- guigues
guigues
15,143 corpus weight
- guimbarde
guimbarde
15,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guerroyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerroyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɛ.ʁwa.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guerroyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guerroyer is uncommon French at frequency #84,856 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡɛ.ʁwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passer son temps à faire des opérations de guerre plus nombreuses que méthodiques et sans grande envergure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guerroyer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 guerroyer, spelled G-U-E-R-R-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer son temps à faire des opérations de guerre plus nombreuses que méthodiques et sans grande envergure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guerroyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout de ce temps, fatigué de son inaction et voyant les souverains de l’Europe assez tranquilles entre eux, il était parti pour guerroyer contre les Sarrasins d’Espagne, à qui Alphonse XI, roi de Castille et de Léon, faisait la guerre.
Comme tous ses compatriotes, il a été arrêté par Bonaparte lors de la guerre, car ce monstre-là ne peut se passer de guerroyer.
This word in other languages
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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