gallomane
\ɡa.lɔ.man\
The verdict
“gallomane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui admire avec excès la nation française, qui l’imite même dans ses travers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gallomane · gallomane · French
gallomane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gallomane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɔ.man\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gallomane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gallomane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.lɔ.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui admire avec excès la nation française, qui l’imite même dans ses travers.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gallomane in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gallomane, spelled G-A-L-L-O-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui admire avec excès la nation française, qui l’imite même dans ses travers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gallomane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit que même l’académicien Chichkov, qui pourtant ne manquait pas de s’emporter contre les gallomanes, ne pouvait se passer du français dans sa vie courante.
Son admiration n’était donc pas sans limite et même un gallomane comme lui pouvait estimer que d’autres langues étaient mieux adaptées à certains usages, ce qui limite là encore une prétendue « Europe française ».
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.