gaou
\ɡa.u\
The verdict
“gaou” is uncommon French (frequency #74,025 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,025
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne fort naïve, qui ne discerne pas, sans style vestimentaire ou des fois qui manque d'informations (un peu en retard).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaou · gaou · French
gaou · rank #74,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,025
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gambit
Nearest frequency peer: gambit (-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 « gaou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gallium
Gallium
25,979 corpus weight
- gambas
gambas
25,978 corpus weight
- gambit
gambit
25,977 corpus weight
- gaou
gaou
25,976 corpus weight
- Gardois
Gardois
25,975 corpus weight
- gaspillent
gaspillent
25,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.u\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaou is uncommon French at frequency #74,025 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne fort naïve, qui ne discerne pas, sans style vestimentaire ou des fois qui manque d'informations (un peu en retard).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gaou, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gaou, spelled G-A-O-U.
Definition
- 1Personne fort naïve, qui ne discerne pas, sans style vestimentaire ou des fois qui manque d'informations (un peu en retard).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mais qu’est-ce que vous faites là ? — On attend Félicité. — Rentrez chez vous, bande de gaous.
Ah oui ? Toi tu me prends pour un gaou ? On a acheté ces taxis ensemble ? Cesse de m’arnaquer monsieur.
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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