Ganges
\ɡɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“Ganges” is uncommon French (frequency #84,829 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,829
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département de l’Hérault, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ganges · Ganges · French
Ganges · rank #84,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,829
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gamache
Nearest frequency peer: Gamache (-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 « Ganges »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Galia
Galia
15,176 corpus weight
- galène
galène
15,174 corpus weight
- Gamache
Gamache
15,173 corpus weight
- Ganges
Ganges
15,172 corpus weight
- gavant
gavant
15,170 corpus weight
- geographical
geographical
15,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ganges » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ganges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ganges » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ganges is uncommon French at frequency #84,829 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune située dans le département de l’Hérault, en France.".
Ganges doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ganges, spelled G-A-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département de l’Hérault, en France.
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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