galicien
\ɡa.li.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“galicien” is uncommon French (frequency #87,664 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,664
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue romane parlée dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne, notamment en Galice, proche du portugais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galicien · galicien · French
galicien · rank #87,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,664
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gambettes
Nearest frequency peer: gambettes (+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 « galicien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fureter
fureter
12,341 corpus weight
- félicitez
félicitez
12,339 corpus weight
- galicien
galicien
12,337 corpus weight
- gambettes
gambettes
12,336 corpus weight
- garantissez
garantissez
12,334 corpus weight
- garantissons
garantissons
12,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « galicien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galicien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.li.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « galicien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
galicien is uncommon French at frequency #87,664 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.li.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue romane parlée dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne, notamment en Galice, proche du portugais.".
galicien has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 galicien, spelled G-A-L-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Langue romane parlée dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne, notamment en Galice, proche du portugais.
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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