Gahéris
The verdict
“Gahéris” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Chevalier de la Table ronde dans la légende arthurienne, compagnon d’armes du roi Arthur, troisième fils du roi Lot et de Morgause, ayant pour frères Gauvain, Gareth et Agravain, et pour demi-frère...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gahéris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.e.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gahéris” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Gahéris is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.e.ʁis\. 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: "Chevalier de la Table ronde dans la légende arthurienne, compagnon d’armes du roi Arthur, troisième fils du roi Lot et de Morgause, ayant pour frères Gauvain, Gareth et Agravain, et pour demi-frère...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gahéris 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 Gahéris, spelled G-A-H-É-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chevalier de la Table ronde dans la légende arthurienne, compagnon d’armes du roi Arthur, troisième fils du roi Lot et de Morgause, ayant pour frères Gauvain, Gareth et Agravain, et pour demi-frère Mordred. Il meurt tué par Lancelot lorsqu’il vient délivrer Guenièvre. Une autre version de sa mort, racontée dans le Lancelot-Graal, parle d’un personnage nommé Gaheris de Karaheu, qui pourrait être le même. Ce Gahéris est involontairement empoisonné par une pomme, donnée innocemment par la reine Guenièvre.
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Using “Gahéris”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-H-É-R-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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