guimauve
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guimauve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.mov\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires.
- 2Plante de la famille des Malvacées, qui a la tige plus haute et les feuilles plus petites que les mauves ordinaires.
- 3Confiserie 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.
- 4Ce qui est fade, douceâtre, sans expression.
- 5Chanson sentimentale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguimauve,giumauve,guiamuve,guimauev,guimauvve,guimavue,guimmauve,guimuave,gumiauve,ugimauve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "guimauve"
Frequency rank: #36,869 in French
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