ganache
\ɡa.naʃ\
The verdict
“ganache” is uncommon French (frequency #61,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,554
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie inférieure et postérieure de la mâchoire inférieure des quadrupèdes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ganache · ganache · French
ganache · rank #61,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,554
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH ganglion
Nearest frequency peer: ganglion (+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 « ganache »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fêtée
fêtée
38,450 corpus weight
- galen
galen
38,449 corpus weight
- ganache
ganache
38,447 corpus weight
- ganglion
ganglion
38,446 corpus weight
- garbo
garbo
38,445 corpus weight
- garza
garza
38,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ganache » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.naʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ganache » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ganache is uncommon French at frequency #61,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.naʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ganache, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ganache, spelled G-A-N-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Partie inférieure et postérieure de la mâchoire inférieure des quadrupèdes.
- 2Visage.
- 3Personne sans intelligence et sans énergie.
- 4Nappage à base de chocolat et de crème fraîche.
- 5Vieillard stupide et crédule.
- 6Fauteuil capitonné.
- 7Cachexie dont un des symptômes est un gonflement sous la mandibule.
- 8Boisson faite avec de l'arquebuse et de l'eau de noix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ganache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tête est débarrassée des longs poils couvrant la ganache, le toupet, les oreilles, pour la faire paraître plus dégagée.
L’homme s’est foutu un coup de fusil dans la ganache et on a vendu la moutarde et le sel à l’encan.
This word in other languages
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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