Galatée
\ɡa.la.te\
The verdict
“Galatée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,540 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,540
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Néréide, nymphe marine de la mythologie grecque, fille de Nérée, dieu marin primitif, et de Doris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galatee · Galatée · French
Galatée · rank #71,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,540
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fêlure
Nearest frequency peer: fêlure (-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 « Galatée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fulmine
fulmine
28,465 corpus weight
- Furnes
Furnes
28,464 corpus weight
- futurisme
futurisme
28,463 corpus weight
- fêlure
fêlure
28,462 corpus weight
- Galatée
Galatée
28,461 corpus weight
- gallas
gallas
28,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Galatée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Galatée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.la.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Galatée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Galatée is uncommon French at frequency #71,540 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡa.la.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Galatée in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Galatée, spelled G-A-L-A-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Néréide, nymphe marine de la mythologie grecque, fille de Nérée, dieu marin primitif, et de Doris.
- 2Statue d’ivoire créée par Pygmalion, dont il tomba amoureux et qu’Aphrodite anima pour exaucer son vœu d’avoir une épouse « semblable à la statue ».
- 3Type de bergère coquette, inventé par Virgile dans ses Églogues.
- 4Satellite naturel de la planète Neptune.
- 5(74) Galatée, internationalement (74) Galatea, planète mineure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Galatée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Galatée est connue pour avoir la peau blanche comme du lait.
L’histoire de Galatée préfigure légèrement celle de Pinocchio.
Synonyms
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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