Ganesh
\ɡa.nɛʃ\
The verdict
“Ganesh” is uncommon French (frequency #55,984 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,984
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Divinité de l’hindouisme à tête d’éléphant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ganesh · Ganesh · French
Ganesh · rank #55,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,984
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gable
Nearest frequency peer: gable (-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 « Ganesh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fêtard
fêtard
44,020 corpus weight
- gabarits
gabarits
44,019 corpus weight
- gable
gable
44,018 corpus weight
- Ganesh
Ganesh
44,017 corpus weight
- garin
garin
44,016 corpus weight
- gartner
gartner
44,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ganesh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ganesh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.nɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ganesh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ganesh is uncommon French at frequency #55,984 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡa.nɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Divinité de l’hindouisme à tête d’éléphant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ganesh, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ganesh, spelled G-A-N-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1Divinité de l’hindouisme à tête d’éléphant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ganesh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porte est étroite, surmontée de deux swastikas, croix gammées que certains hindous assimilent à Ganesh, le dieu à tête d’éléphant.
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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