garçon
/ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/
"garcon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“garçon” is uncommon English (frequency #86,304 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,304
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).
Corpus desk
Index EN-garcon · garçon · English
garçon · rank #86,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,304
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gastrectomy
Nearest frequency peer: gastrectomy (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “garçon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gapes
gapes
13,700 corpus weight
- gapped
gapped
13,699 corpus weight
- garçon
garçon
13,697 corpus weight
- gastrectomy
gastrectomy
13,696 corpus weight
- gastroesoph…
gastroesophageal
13,695 corpus weight
- Glenmore
Glenmore
13,691 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “garçon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garçon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “garçon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
garçon is uncommon English at frequency #86,304 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for garçon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French garçon m (1788), from Old French garçon, oblique case of gars (“servant”), from Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakkjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Co… The correct English form is garçon, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).
Etymology
From French garçon m (1788), from Old French garçon, oblique case of gars (“servant”), from Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakkjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (“exile, warrior, hero”) (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio (“a banished person, exile, stranger”), Old English wreċċa (“a wretch, stranger, exile”), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr (“man, warrior, hero”). More at wretch, wreak.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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