galopin

/\ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#73,184

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

galopin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeune garçon employé dans un atelier pour faire différentes courses. Pronounced \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\.

Key facts for galopin
PropertyValue
Headwordgalopin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,184
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of galopin in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for galopin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,184 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for galopin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is galopin, spelled G-A-L-O-P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jeune garçon employé dans un atelier pour faire différentes courses.
  2. 2
    Petit garçon qui polissonne, principalement dans les rues.
  3. 3
    Petit garçon quelconque qui a donné un sujet de mécontentement.
  4. 4
    Enfant (garçon ou fille).
  5. 5
    Garçon qui sert dans les cuisines.
  6. 6
    Moitié d’un demi de bière, soit 12,5 centilitres.
  7. 7
    Spécialité culinaire de la Picardie à base de brioche.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #73,184 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "galopin"?
"galopin" is spelled G-A-L-O-P-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\.
What does "galopin" mean?
As a noun, "galopin" means: Jeune garçon employé dans un atelier pour faire différentes courses.
How do you pronounce "galopin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "galopin" is \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "galopin" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.