guigne

\ɡiɲ\

/\ɡiɲ\/ noun

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The verdict

“guigne” is uncommon French (frequency #58,653 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,653
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malchance, poisse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guigne · guigne · French

guigne · rank #58,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,653
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH groseilles

Nearest frequency peer: groseilles (-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 « guigne »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guigne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guigne
PropertyValue
Headwordguigne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡiɲ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#58,653
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « guigne » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).guignetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « groseilles » (#58,652), « grim » (#58,651), « habilitées » (#58,655). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guigne » est au #58,653. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guigne is uncommon French at frequency #58,653 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡiɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malchance, poisse.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guigne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guigne, spelled G-U-I-G-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Malchance, poisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how guigne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Porter la guigne.
  2. Les paysans, naïvement lâches et fangeusement égoïstes, impénétrables au sentiment de la Patrie et tout à fait étrangers à l’idée de Race, ne virent, en somme, dans la guerre, qu’un funeste coup du sort, une guigne noire qu’il s’agissait de conjurer, chacun pour soi, par toutes les crapuleries et les manigances.

This word in other languages

bad luck(English)mala pata(Español)Pech(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guigne"?
"guigne" is spelled G-U-I-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡiɲ\.
What does "guigne" mean?
As a noun, "guigne" means: Malchance, poisse.
How do you pronounce "guigne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guigne" is \ɡiɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guigne" come from?
"guigne" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guigne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Greece#58,650Gotlib#58,647heurta#58,661hérita#58,670

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list