galions
\ɡa.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“galions” is uncommon French (frequency #86,733 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,733
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de galion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galions · galions · French
galions · rank #86,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,733
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH galeristes
Nearest frequency peer: galeristes (-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 « galions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fureurs
fureurs
13,273 corpus weight
- furniture
furniture
13,272 corpus weight
- fécondée
fécondée
13,270 corpus weight
- galeristes
galeristes
13,269 corpus weight
- galions
galions
13,268 corpus weight
- galvanisée
galvanisée
13,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « galions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « galions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
galions is uncommon French at frequency #86,733 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.ljɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de galion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for galions, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is galions, spelled G-A-L-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de galion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how galions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était donc possible, estimèrent les corsaires français, puis leurs émules hollandais et anglais, de poser un drain sur cette artère nourricière, en saisissant, à la mer, les galions.
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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