gallup

\ɡa.lyp\

/\ɡa.lyp\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gallup » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gallup
PropertyValue
Headwordgallup
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.lyp\
Letters6
Frequency rank#62,303
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « gallup » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.galluptombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Gallien » (#62,302), « Galway » (#62,304), « galion » (#62,301). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gallup » est au #62,303. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Première dénomination, devenue désuète, du sondage d’opinion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gallup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’avais envie de faire, pour mon édification, une de ces enquêtes ou Gallups, par lesquelles la statistique tente d’ordonner le hasard.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gallup"?
"gallup" is spelled G-A-L-L-U-P. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.lyp\.
What does "gallup" mean?
As a noun, "gallup" means: Première dénomination, devenue désuète, du sondage d’opinion.
How do you pronounce "gallup"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gallup" is \ɡa.lyp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gallup" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gallup", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list