Galapagos
\ɡa.la.pa.ɡos\
The verdict
“Galapagos” is uncommon French (frequency #52,707 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,707
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel de l’Équateur situé dans le nord-est de l’océan Pacifique sud, à 927 kilomètres au large des côtes équatoriennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galapagos · Galapagos · French
Galapagos · rank #52,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,707
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gainage
Nearest frequency peer: gainage (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Galapagos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fuiter
fuiter
47,297 corpus weight
- fumoir
fumoir
47,296 corpus weight
- gainage
gainage
47,295 corpus weight
- Galapagos
Galapagos
47,294 corpus weight
- galloise
galloise
47,292 corpus weight
- garderons
garderons
47,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Galapagos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Galapagos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.la.pa.ɡos\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Galapagos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Galapagos is uncommon French at frequency #52,707 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡa.la.pa.ɡos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archipel de l’Équateur situé dans le nord-est de l’océan Pacifique sud, à 927 kilomètres au large des côtes équatoriennes.".
Galapagos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Galapagos, spelled G-A-L-A-P-A-G-O-S.
Definition
- 1Archipel de l’Équateur situé dans le nord-est de l’océan Pacifique sud, à 927 kilomètres au large des côtes équatoriennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Galapagos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En février 2019, une tortue géante d’une centaine d’années a été trouvée sur l’île Fernandina des Galápagos, alors que son espèce était présumée éteinte depuis un siècle.
Manchot des Galapagos.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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