galopin
\ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“galopin” is uncommon French (frequency #73,184 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,184
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune garçon employé dans un atelier pour faire différentes courses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galopin · galopin · French
galopin · rank #73,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,184
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gangue
Nearest frequency peer: gangue (+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 « galopin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frotta
frotta
26,821 corpus weight
- fuguer
fuguer
26,819 corpus weight
- galopin
galopin
26,817 corpus weight
- gangue
gangue
26,816 corpus weight
- GDS
GDS
26,815 corpus weight
- genevoises
genevoises
26,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « galopin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galopin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « galopin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
galopin is uncommon French at frequency #73,184 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
galopin has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is galopin, spelled G-A-L-O-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Jeune garçon employé dans un atelier pour faire différentes courses.
- 2Petit garçon qui polissonne, principalement dans les rues.
- 3Petit garçon quelconque qui a donné un sujet de mécontentement.
- 4Enfant (garçon ou fille).
- 5Garçon qui sert dans les cuisines.
- 6Moitié d’un demi de bière, soit 12,5 centilitres.
- 7Spécialité culinaire de la Picardie à base de brioche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how galopin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Renverrez-vous vos ouvriers ?… Mon avis est de laisser les choses comme elles sont, et d'avoir un galopin le plus tôt que vous pourrez ; car je regrette le temps perdu de Nicolas.
Invariablement les fonctionnaires, arrivés récemment ici des autres parties de la France, éprouvent de l’étonnement en voyant ces classes drues, ces hordes de galopins qui déambulent par les routes.
Synonyms
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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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