guillemet
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,884
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
guillemet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ponctuation de formes diverses (inversées entre ouverture et fermeture) qu’on emploie en tête et à la fin d’une citation, souvent même au commencement de chacune des lignes dont elle est composée, ... Pronounced \ɡij.mɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guillemet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡij.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guillemet is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡij.mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,884 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for guillemet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is guillemet, spelled G-U-I-L-L-E-M-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ponctuation de formes diverses (inversées entre ouverture et fermeture) qu’on emploie en tête et à la fin d’une citation, souvent même au commencement de chacune des lignes dont elle est composée, pour signaler et marquer son caractère de discours emprunté ou rapporté en extrait.
- 2Façon d’insister sur un mot ou une expression ou de les atténuer, ou encore d'en signaler un usage atypique, ironique, personnel ou figuré, en les mettant entre guillemets pour les rapporter de façon distanciée ou les rattacher à une intention particulière.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #69,884 in French
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