guez
\ɡy.ɛz\
The verdict
“guez” is uncommon French (frequency #50,247 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,247
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant rythmé et versifié en breton, qui tient du cantique ou de la saga.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guez · guez · French
guez · rank #50,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,247
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grossissement
Nearest frequency peer: grossissement (-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 « guez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grenadine
grenadine
49,757 corpus weight
- grignote
grignote
49,756 corpus weight
- grossisseme…
grossissement
49,755 corpus weight
- guez
guez
49,754 corpus weight
- Guitry
Guitry
49,753 corpus weight
- génitif
génitif
49,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡy.ɛz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guez is uncommon French at frequency #50,247 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡy.ɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chant rythmé et versifié en breton, qui tient du cantique ou de la saga.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for guez, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guez, spelled G-U-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Chant rythmé et versifié en breton, qui tient du cantique ou de la saga.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son rapport, M. Luzel présente quelques considérations générales sur la langue et la littérature de la basse Bretagne ; puis il explique la nature et l’origine des diverses espèces de poésies bretonnes : guez historiques, sacrés, fantastiques et plaisants ; cantiques, chansons, sônes et rismadels.
Les communes voisines, effrayées à cette nouvelle, se levèrent, « résolues à écraser la vipère avant qu'elle eût creusé son nid ». Mais Fontenelle se porta à leur rencontre, les attaqua dans une lande et en fit un tel carnage que, selon un vieux guez breton, « la terre, maigre jusqu’alors et ne produisant que bruyères, s’engraissa de pourriture humaine ju…
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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