gueules
French, noun
gueules is spelled G-U-E-U-L-E-S (7 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written French, the 9,289th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gueules is a French feminine noun meaning “gules, red color of the blazon, only when used in the expression de gueules” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of gueule. With an accent, gueulés is a different word: “masculine plural of gueulé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Émail servant à décrire la couleur rouge d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc”.
What does gueules mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of gueule
- 2
femininegules, red color of the blazon, only when used in the expression de gueules
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of gueuler
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of gueulé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Émail servant à décrire la couleur rouge d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to gueules
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gueules in French?
gueules appears 6.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).