gamay
\ɡa.mɛ\
The verdict
“gamay” is uncommon French (frequency #60,810 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,810
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de gamay noir qui est le nom officiel de ce cépage très utilisé en Bourgogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gamay · gamay · French
gamay · rank #60,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,810
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gangnam
Nearest frequency peer: Gangnam (+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 « gamay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fumette
fumette
39,195 corpus weight
- fétichistes
fétichistes
39,193 corpus weight
- gamay
gamay
39,191 corpus weight
- Gangnam
Gangnam
39,190 corpus weight
- Gaudet
Gaudet
39,189 corpus weight
- Gauvin
Gauvin
39,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gamay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gamay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gamay is uncommon French at frequency #60,810 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gamay in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gamay, spelled G-A-M-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de gamay noir qui est le nom officiel de ce cépage très utilisé en Bourgogne.
- 2Vin provenant de ce cépage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gamay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’où l’idée des viticulteurs du Beaujolais de reconvertir leur cépage phare, le gamay, pour faire du crémant de Bourgogne, de changer le beaujolais blanc en bourgogne blanc, tous deux étant produits avec du chardonnay, et de replanter leurs vignes avec du pinot noir pour récolter des bourgognes rouges.
Les Morange possédaient quelques parcelles de terre, sur le versant sud, où de rustiques ceps de gamay prospéraient, produisant un petit vin âcre que Pierrot avait le don de rendre goûteux, avec parfois même d’étonnantes notes fruitées.
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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