guêtre

/\ɡɛtʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

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Misspellings

0

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guêtre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe de drap, de toile, de cuir, qui sert à recouvrir le haut de la chaussure et souvent aussi le bas de la jambe. Pronounced \ɡɛtʁ\.

Key facts for guêtre
PropertyValue
Headwordguêtre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɛtʁ\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

guêtre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for guêtre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for guêtre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Enveloppe de drap, de toile, de cuir, qui sert à recouvrir le haut de la chaussure et souvent aussi le bas de la jambe.
  2. 2
    Vêtement d’apparat couvrant le bas de la jambe et le haut de la chaussure.
  3. 3
    Vêtement fonctionnel de protection destiné à garder au chaud et au sec le bas de la jambe pour le sport ou certaines activités d’extérieur (militaires notamment).
  4. 4
    Vêtement fonctionnel de protection destiné à sauvegarder la propreté de la chaussure et du bas de la jambe d'une danseuse.
  5. 5
    Protection qui couvre le bas du membre d'un cheval.
  6. 6
    Manchon flexible qui prolonge jusqu’aux tuyères l’écran thermique du compartiment de propulsion d’un lanceur et contribue à la protection thermique et acoustique de ce compartiment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guêtre"?
"guêtre" is spelled G-U-Ê-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɛtʁ\.
What does "guêtre" mean?
As a noun, "guêtre" means: Enveloppe de drap, de toile, de cuir, qui sert à recouvrir le haut de la chaussure et souvent aussi le bas de la jambe.
How do you pronounce "guêtre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guêtre" is \ɡɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guêtre" come from?
"guêtre" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.