guru
\ɡy.ʁy\
The verdict
“guru” is uncommon French (frequency #53,991 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,991
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de gourou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guru · guru · French
guru · rank #53,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,991
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gupta
Nearest frequency peer: gupta (-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 « guru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grenobloise
Grenobloise
46,014 corpus weight
- Grover
Grover
46,012 corpus weight
- gupta
gupta
46,011 corpus weight
- guru
guru
46,010 corpus weight
- Gélinas
Gélinas
46,009 corpus weight
- généalogies
généalogies
46,007 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡy.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guru is uncommon French at frequency #53,991 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡy.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de gourou.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guru, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guru, spelled G-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de gourou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais revenons au guru de Parvati qui, lui aussi, a fondé un sanctuaire au dieu Dharmo, fréquenté surtout par les basses castes et les Santal.
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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