gueule
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,363
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
gueule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bouche chez les animaux carnassiers, chez certains poissons et certains gros reptiles. Pronounced \ɡœl\. It ranks #1,363 in French word frequency. Often confused with gueux and gueules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gueule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gueule is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡœl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,363 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gueule, with forms such as "geuule", "ggueule", and "guelue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "gueux", "gueules", "gueuler", 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 gueule, spelled G-U-E-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bouche chez les animaux carnassiers, chez certains poissons et certains gros reptiles.
- 2Bouche.
- 3Visage.
- 4Personne.
- 5Ouverture de certains objets.
- 6Ouverture d’un terrier.
- 7Labié.
- 8Appétit, voire goinfrerie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geuule,ggueule,guelue,gueuel,gueulle,guuele,ugeule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gueule
Misspelling Variants of "gueule"
Frequency rank: #1,363 in French
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