guindé
\ɡɛ̃.de\
The verdict
“guindé” is uncommon French (frequency #76,636 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,636
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l’air contraint, qui veut paraître toujours grave. — Note d’usage : S’applique surtout aux manières, aux allures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guinde · guindé · French
guindé · rank #76,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,636
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guimauves
Nearest frequency peer: guimauves (-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 « guindé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grouillent
grouillent
23,368 corpus weight
- growing
growing
23,367 corpus weight
- guimauves
guimauves
23,366 corpus weight
- guindé
guindé
23,365 corpus weight
- gués
gués
23,364 corpus weight
- gynécologiq…
gynécologiques
23,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guindé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guindé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɛ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guindé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guindé is uncommon French at frequency #76,636 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡɛ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
guindé has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is guindé, spelled G-U-I-N-D-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a l’air contraint, qui veut paraître toujours grave. — Note d’usage : S’applique surtout aux manières, aux allures.
- 2Surélevé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guindé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une atmosphère d’usages si froids et si guindés, elle avait si peu joui de la fraîcheur et de la poésie de son âge.
À beaucoup d’égards, nous préférons la piété amusante et spirituelle de Pierre Camus, l’ami de François de Sales, à la tenue raide et guindée qui est devenue plus tard la règle du clergé français et a fait de lui une sorte d’armée noire à part du monde et en guerre avec lui.
Synonyms
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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