Galicie
\ɡa.li.si\
The verdict
“Galicie” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,368 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #53,368
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Province historique du sud de la Pologne dont la capitale est Cracovie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Galicie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.li.si\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Galicie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Galicie is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.li.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,368 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Galicie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Galicie, spelled G-A-L-I-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Province historique du sud de la Pologne dont la capitale est Cracovie.
- 2Région du nord-ouest de l’Ukraine réunissant les oblasts de Lviv, d’Ivano-Frankivsk et de Ternopil.
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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Using “Galicie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-L-I-C-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡa.li.si\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.