galion
\ɡa.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“galion” is uncommon French (frequency #62,301 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,301
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand bâtiment de charge que l’Espagne employait autrefois pour transporter en Europe les produits des mines du Pérou, du Mexique, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galion · galion · French
galion · rank #62,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,301
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gallien
Nearest frequency peer: Gallien (+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 « galion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gabor
Gabor
37,702 corpus weight
- galion
galion
37,700 corpus weight
- Gallien
Gallien
37,699 corpus weight
- gallup
gallup
37,698 corpus weight
- Galway
Galway
37,697 corpus weight
- Gans
Gans
37,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « galion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « galion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
galion is uncommon French at frequency #62,301 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.ljɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand bâtiment de charge que l’Espagne employait autrefois pour transporter en Europe les produits des mines du Pérou, du Mexique, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for galion in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is galion, spelled G-A-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grand bâtiment de charge que l’Espagne employait autrefois pour transporter en Europe les produits des mines du Pérou, du Mexique, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how galion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Armer un galion.
Les galions de Vigo.
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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