gaon
The verdict
“gaon” is uncommon French (frequency #93,803 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,803
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre honorifique donné à certains dignitaires du judaïsme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaon · gaon · French
gaon · rank #93,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,803
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garderaient
Nearest frequency peer: garderaient (+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 « gaon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- GAEC
GAEC
6,202 corpus weight
- gah
gah
6,201 corpus weight
- Gallopin
Gallopin
6,200 corpus weight
- gaon
gaon
6,198 corpus weight
- garderaient
garderaient
6,197 corpus weight
- garez
garez
6,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaon is uncommon French at frequency #93,803 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gaon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gaon, spelled G-A-O-N.
Definition
- 1Titre honorifique donné à certains dignitaires du judaïsme.
- 2Directeur d’une académie talmudique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père résolut de partir seul en reconnaissance, et c’était sans doute le meilleur parti à prendre. Il ne fut pas absent longtemps. Un vieillard fripé et agité l’accompagnait, qui avait nom rabbi Jéphet, et exerçait les fonctions de gaon à la synagogue.
Si nous sommes mal renseignés sur les origines de l’école rabbinique de Paris, nous savons que, vers 1150, elle avait à sa tête un élève de Raschi, le gaon Matatia ben Mosché […].
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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