gueuse
\ɡøz\
The verdict
“gueuse” is uncommon French (frequency #71,563 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,563
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bloc de fer fondu qu’on coule dans le sable au sortir du four.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gueuse · gueuse · French
gueuse · rank #71,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,563
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guernica
Nearest frequency peer: Guernica (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gueuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grossièretés
grossièretés
28,442 corpus weight
- grou
grou
28,441 corpus weight
- guelfes
guelfes
28,440 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
28,439 corpus weight
- gueuse
gueuse
28,438 corpus weight
- Guilbault
Guilbault
28,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gueuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gueuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡøz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gueuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gueuse is uncommon French at frequency #71,563 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
gueuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gueuse, spelled G-U-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Bloc de fer fondu qu’on coule dans le sable au sortir du four.
- 2Morceau de fonte de fer destiné à lester un navire.
- 3Morceau de fonte de fer destiné à lester un navire.
- 4Moule pour recevoir le bloc en fusion.
- 5Masse facilitant la descente des apnéistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gueuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il regardait attentivement les chalands qui remontaient la rivière. Ils se suivaient, nombreux, ce jour-là, ayant été arrêtés par les glaces. Les uns, vides, dressaient leur masse surélevée et semblaient voler sur les eaux, pareils à des tours. Les autres, lourdement chargés de charbon ou de gueuses de fonte, s’enfonçaient si profondément que le flot rasa…
[…] mais le reste des ballots, les lourds espars, les vergues de rechange, quelques tonnes de gueuses qui formaient le lest, furent reportés à l’arrière, pour faciliter de leur poids le dégagement de l’étrave.
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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