ruse de guerre
\ʁyz də ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“ruse de guerre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait de tromper un adversaire ou de le pousser à commettre une imprudence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruse de guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁyz də ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ruse de guerre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ruse de guerre is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁyz də ɡɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fait de tromper un adversaire ou de le pousser à commettre une imprudence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ruse de guerre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ruse de guerre, spelled R-U-S-E- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait de tromper un adversaire ou de le pousser à commettre une imprudence.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is R-U-S-E- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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