galiléen
\ɡa.li.le.ɛ̃\
The verdict
“galiléen” is uncommon French (frequency #85,742 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,742
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la province de Galilée, en Israël.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galileen · galiléen · French
galiléen · rank #85,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gachet
Nearest frequency peer: gachet (-2 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 « galiléen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frottée
frottée
14,263 corpus weight
- furoncles
furoncles
14,262 corpus weight
- gachet
gachet
14,261 corpus weight
- galiléen
galiléen
14,259 corpus weight
- gallicane
gallicane
14,257 corpus weight
- galérien
galérien
14,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « galiléen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galiléen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡa.li.le.ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « galiléen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
galiléen is uncommon French at frequency #85,742 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡa.li.le.ɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for galiléen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is galiléen, spelled G-A-L-I-L-É-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la province de Galilée, en Israël.
- 2Relatif aux travaux de Galilée, mathématicien, physicien, et astronome italien des XVIᵉ et XVIIᵉ siècles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how galiléen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le paysan galiléen, moins instruit que l’habitant des villes, pouvait cependant faire preuve de beaucoup plus d’indépendance dans les idées et d’un véritable esprit de liberté.
Au départ, l’homme n’avait pas grand-chose pour lui : un physique passe-partout, un accent de bouseux galiléen, et surtout il venait de Nazareth, le trou du cul du monde.
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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