guts
\ɡɔts\
The verdict
“guts” is uncommon French (frequency #52,724 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,724
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tripes, courage, hardiesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guts · guts · French
guts · rank #52,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,724
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guérard
Nearest frequency peer: Guérard (+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 « guts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Granier
Granier
47,283 corpus weight
- gretchen
gretchen
47,281 corpus weight
- guts
guts
47,277 corpus weight
- Guérard
Guérard
47,276 corpus weight
- gélules
gélules
47,275 corpus weight
- Götze
Götze
47,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔts\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guts is uncommon French at frequency #52,724 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tripes, courage, hardiesse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for guts in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is guts, spelled G-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Tripes, courage, hardiesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’admire son courage parce que ça prend du travail et ça prend du « guts » pour faire le travail qu’on a à faire aujourd’hui dans le domaine politique, surtout dans les années quatre-vingt-dix.
Ce n’est pas une question de « guts » ni de couilles, en bon français, c’est une question de respect de la loi.
Synonyms
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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