gallup
\ɡa.lyp\
The verdict
“gallup” is uncommon French (frequency #62,303 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,303
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première dénomination, devenue désuète, du sondage d’opinion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gallup · gallup · French
gallup · rank #62,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,303
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 « gallup »
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 « gallup » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gallup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lyp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gallup » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gallup is uncommon French at frequency #62,303 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.lyp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première dénomination, devenue désuète, du sondage d’opinion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gallup in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gallup, spelled G-A-L-L-U-P.
Definition
- 1Première dénomination, devenue désuète, du sondage d’opinion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gallup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais envie de faire, pour mon édification, une de ces enquêtes ou Gallups, par lesquelles la statistique tente d’ordonner le hasard.
Malgré une tentative lors de la signature des accords de Munich par Daladier, le premier sondage d’opinion en France, alors appelé un gallup, ne connait aucun succès et ne sera publié que confidentiellement.
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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