guerroyer
\ɡɛ.ʁwa.je\
The verdict
“guerroyer” is uncommon French (frequency #84,856 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,856
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Passer son temps à faire des opérations de guerre plus nombreuses que méthodiques et sans grande envergure.
| 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) |
Where “guerroyer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
guerroyer is uncommon French at frequency #84,856 among 194,371 “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.
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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Using “guerroyer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-O-Y-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡɛ.ʁwa.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.