guichetier
\ɡiʃ.tje\
The verdict
“guichetier” is an uncommon French word, ranked #80,264 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #80,264
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gardien, gardienne de prison qui ouvre et ferme les guichets et qui a soin d’empêcher que les prisonniers ne s’évadent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guichetier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡiʃ.tje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guichetier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guichetier is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡiʃ.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,264 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guichetier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guichetier, spelled G-U-I-C-H-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gardien, gardienne de prison qui ouvre et ferme les guichets et qui a soin d’empêcher que les prisonniers ne s’évadent.
- 2Employé préposé à un guichet.
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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Using “guichetier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-I-C-H-E-T-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡiʃ.tje\ (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
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.