querelle

/\kə.ʁɛl\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,672

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

querelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité. Pronounced \kə.ʁɛl\. Often confused with quelle and quenelle.

Key facts for querelle
PropertyValue
Headwordquerelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kə.ʁɛl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#13,672
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for querelle is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə.ʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,672 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for querelle, with forms such as "qeurelle", "qquerelle", and "queerlle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "quelle", "quenelle", "quenelles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 querelle, spelled Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qeurelle,qquerelle,queerlle,querele,querelel,querlele,querrelle,qureelle,uqerelle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for querelle

Misspelling Variants of "querelle"

qeurelle8qquerelle9queerlle8querele7querelel8querlele8querrelle9qureelle8
Misspelling Variants of "querelle"

Frequency rank: #13,672 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "querelle"?
"querelle" is spelled Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kə.ʁɛl\.
What does "querelle" mean?
As a noun, "querelle" means: Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité.
What words are commonly confused with "querelle"?
"querelle" is commonly confused with "quelle", "quenelle", "quenelles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "querelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "querelle" is \kə.ʁɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "querelle" come from?
"querelle" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.