querelle
French, noun
querelle is spelled Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Querelle is a French feminine noun meaning “quarrel, argument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of quereller. With an accent, querellé is a different word: “past participle of quereller”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité”.
What does querelle mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequarrel, argument
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of quereller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Contestation, démêlé, dispute mêlée d’aigreur et d’animosité.
noun: 1. Variante de quairelle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of querelle
- querelles plural
- querellée feminine
- querellés masculine plural
- querellées feminine plural
- quérelles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to querelle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is querelle in French?
querelle appears 3.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).