gana
\ɡa.na\
The verdict
“gana” is uncommon French (frequency #82,060 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,060
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée à Bornéo, en Malaisie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gana · gana · French
gana · rank #82,060 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,060
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gambier
Nearest frequency peer: gambier (-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 « gana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gadoue
gadoue
17,944 corpus weight
- gambier
gambier
17,942 corpus weight
- gana
gana
17,941 corpus weight
- garot
garot
17,939 corpus weight
- gaspillez
gaspillez
17,938 corpus weight
- geishas
geishas
17,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gana is uncommon French at frequency #82,060 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée à Bornéo, en Malaisie.".
gana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gana, spelled G-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée à Bornéo, en Malaisie.
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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