gueule de loup
The verdict
“gueule de loup” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Muflier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gueule de loup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡœl də lu\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gueule de loup” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gueule de loup is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡœl də lu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gueule de loup in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 gueule de loup, spelled G-U-E-U-L-E- -D-E- -L-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Muflier.
- 2Tuyau recourbé et mobile qu’on met au-dessus d’une cheminée → voir tourne-vent
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Using “gueule de loup”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-U-L-E- -D-E- -L-O-U-P — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡœl də lu\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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