querelle
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | querelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kə.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité.
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Also misspelled as: qeurelle,qquerelle,queerlle,querele,querelel,querlele,querrelle,qureelle,uqerelle
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Misspelling Variants of "querelle"
Frequency rank: #13,672 in French
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