guillotiner
\ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne\
The verdict
“guillotiner” is uncommon French (frequency #98,020 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,020
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appliquer la peine de mort par le supplice de la guillotine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guillotiner · guillotiner · French
guillotiner · rank #98,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,020
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guang
Nearest frequency peer: Guang (-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 « guillotiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grouillait
grouillait
1,985 corpus weight
- gréseux
gréseux
1,984 corpus weight
- Guang
Guang
1,982 corpus weight
- guillotiner
guillotiner
1,981 corpus weight
- Guilluy
Guilluy
1,980 corpus weight
- Gymnasium
Gymnasium
1,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guillotiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guillotiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guillotiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guillotiner is uncommon French at frequency #98,020 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appliquer la peine de mort par le supplice de la guillotine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for guillotiner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guillotiner, spelled G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Appliquer la peine de mort par le supplice de la guillotine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guillotiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous étions au plus fort des exécutions, on guillotinait trente ou quarante personnes par jour, et une si grande quantité de sang coulait sur la place de la Révolution, que l'on avait été obligé de pratiquer autour de l'échafaud, un fossé de trois pieds de profondeur.
Le soldat des guerres de la Liberté attachait une importance presque superstitieuse à l’accomplissement des moindres consignes. De là résulte qu'il n'éprouvait aucune pitié pour les généraux ou les fonctionnaires qu'il voyait guillotiner après quelque défaite, sous l'inculpation de manquement à leur devoir.
This word in other languages
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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