garçon manqué
\ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ mɑ̃.ke\
The verdict
“garçon manqué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille à l’apparence, au comportement et aux goûts de garçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garcon-manque · garçon manqué · French
garçon manqué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garçon manqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ mɑ̃.ke\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
garçon manqué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ mɑ̃.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fille à l’apparence, au comportement et aux goûts de garçon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for garçon manqué, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is garçon manqué, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -M-A-N-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Fille à l’apparence, au comportement et aux goûts de garçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garçon manqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour moi, ces mots « garçon manqué » signifiaient que les filles n’étaient qu’un faux pas de la nature, le résultat d’une erreur au cours de la création d’un garçon.
Garçon manqué, toujours en culottes de cheval et chemisette déchirée, elle grimpe aux arbres, déniche les pies, monte à cru, trouve plaisir à aller avec les paysans retourner le foin.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.