guérievsguerresTell them apart

Quick tell: guérie is a adjective, guerres is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guérie” is an adjective and “guerres” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,231
“guérie” frequency rank
#3,615
“guerres” frequency rank
27846
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guérie guerres
Definition Féminin singulier de guéri. Pluriel de guerre.

Where the eye mixes guérie and guerres

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. guérie runs 6 letters (CVVCVV) against guerres's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
guérie
7 ch
guerres

Look-alike desk: guérie vs guerres

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: guérie is \ɡe.ʁi\ while guerres is \ɡɛʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27846, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guérie is recorded at frequency rank #24,231, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɡe.ʁi\. guerres is at rank #3,615, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡɛʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27846, this pair ranks #326,429 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guérie vs guerres

Shared letters: egru. Private to "guérie": . Private to "guerres": s.

"guérie" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV  ·  "guerres" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guerresgeurres · gguerres · guerers · gueres · guerress · guerrse · gureres · ugerres

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guérie" and "guerres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guérie" is an adjective and "guerres" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "guérie" or "guerres"?
"guerres" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,615 in our French list, against #24,231 for "guérie". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "guérie" and "guerres" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guérie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guerres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #326,429 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guérie" and "guerres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guéret vs guérie". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #326,429 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list