Guillotière
\ɡi.jo.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Guillotière” is uncommon French (frequency #55,322 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,322
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de la ville de Lyon, situé sur la rive gauche du Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guillotiere · Guillotière · French
Guillotière · rank #55,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,322
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guinées
Nearest frequency peer: guinées (+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 « Guillotière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gréement
gréement
44,682 corpus weight
- Gts
Gts
44,681 corpus weight
- Guillotière
Guillotière
44,679 corpus weight
- guinées
guinées
44,678 corpus weight
- gustatif
gustatif
44,677 corpus weight
- gustatives
gustatives
44,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guillotière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guillotière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.jo.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guillotière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guillotière is uncommon French at frequency #55,322 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡi.jo.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quartier de la ville de Lyon, situé sur la rive gauche du Rhône.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Guillotière, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Guillotière, spelled G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Quartier de la ville de Lyon, situé sur la rive gauche du Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guillotière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, Alexis prenait la direction opposée, vers le pont de la Guillotière. Syllabes sinistres ! Que peut-il vous arriver de bien dans le quartier de la Guillotière ? « Guillotière, pensait Alexia avec insistance, Guil-lo-tière… » et il ne voulait pas admirer même quand il y avait de quoi.
Moi j’ai un lampadaire Il sert pas à grand chose J’habite à Guillotière Et des fois je le pose Car c’est… mon lampadaire
Synonyms
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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