guimauve

/\ɡi.mov\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,869

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

guimauve is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires. Pronounced \ɡi.mov\.

Key facts for guimauve
PropertyValue
Headwordguimauve
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡi.mov\
Letters8
Frequency rank#36,869
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of guimauve in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for guimauve is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡi.mov\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,869 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for guimauve, with forms such as "gguimauve", "giumauve", and "guiamuve". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 guimauve, spelled G-U-I-M-A-U-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires.
  2. 2
    Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires.
  3. 3
    Confiserie molle à base de sucre, de blanc d’œufs battus, d’extrait de guimauve (de nos jours remplacé par de la gélatine) et de gomme arabique.
  4. 4
    Ce qui est fade, douceâtre, sans expression.
  5. 5
    Chanson sentimentale.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gguimauve,giumauve,guiamuve,guimauev,guimauvve,guimavue,guimmauve,guimuave,gumiauve,ugimauve

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guimauve

Misspelling Variants of "guimauve"

gguimauve9giumauve8guiamuve8guimauev8guimauvve9guimavue8guimmauve9guimuave8
Misspelling Variants of "guimauve"

Frequency rank: #36,869 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guimauve"?
"guimauve" is spelled G-U-I-M-A-U-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡi.mov\.
What does "guimauve" mean?
As a noun, "guimauve" means: Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires.
What are common misspellings of "guimauve"?
Common misspellings include "gguimauve", "giumauve", "guiamuve", "guimauev", "guimauvve". The correct spelling is "guimauve".
How do you pronounce "guimauve"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guimauve" is \ɡi.mov\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guimauve" come from?
"guimauve" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.