Gardanne
The verdict
“Gardanne” is uncommon French (frequency #53,370 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,370
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardanne · Gardanne · French
Gardanne · rank #53,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,370
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gambardella
Nearest frequency peer: Gambardella (-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 « Gardanne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gabelle
gabelle
46,635 corpus weight
- gaies
gaies
46,634 corpus weight
- Galicie
Galicie
46,633 corpus weight
- Gambardella
Gambardella
46,632 corpus weight
- Gardanne
Gardanne
46,631 corpus weight
- garon
garon
46,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gardanne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gardanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gardanne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gardanne is uncommon French at frequency #53,370 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gardanne, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gardanne, spelled G-A-R-D-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gardanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'épaisseur de la zone des lignites exploités n'est pas invariable ; au grand puits de Fuveau, elle atteint 131 à 132 mètres, et à Gardanne, elle se rapproche de 174 mètres.
Nul ne doute, dans la conjoncture économique et énergétique actuelle, que le projet d'extension de la centrale thermique de Gardanne (groupe 5 de 600 MW) ne soit une chance pour le bassin houiller de l'Arc et l'avenir de l'emploi dans cette région minière et industrielle. 56 millions de tonnes de lignite doivent être extraites de 1985 à 2009.
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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