Galicie
\ɡa.li.si\
The verdict
“Galicie” is uncommon French (frequency #53,368 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,368
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province historique du sud de la Pologne dont la capitale est Cracovie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galicie · Galicie · French
Galicie · rank #53,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaies
Nearest frequency peer: gaies (-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 « Galicie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fédéré
fédéré
46,636 corpus weight
- gabelle
gabelle
46,635 corpus weight
- gaies
gaies
46,634 corpus weight
- Galicie
Galicie
46,633 corpus weight
- Gambardella
Gambardella
46,632 corpus weight
- Gardanne
Gardanne
46,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Galicie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Galicie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Galicie is uncommon French at frequency #53,368 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡa.li.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Galicie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Galicie se compose des royaumes de Galicie, de Lodomérie, et du grand-duché de Cracovie, annexé en 1847.
Le déclin de Kiev s’est précipité à la suite des dévastations faites par les Tatares en 1240. Quant à l’Ukraine Occidentale, — Galicie et Volhynie, — par le fait qu’elle était plus à l’Ouest et mieux abritée de leurs déprédations, elle connaissait un développement et une prospérité particulière. Sous le règne de Danilo, en 1255, le duché de Galicie et de…
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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