gargatière
\ɡaʁ.ɡa.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“gargatière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gosier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gargatiere · gargatière · French
gargatière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | gargatière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ɡa.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gargatière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gargatière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.ɡa.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gosier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gargatière, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gargatière, spelled G-A-R-G-A-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gosier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gargatière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lampe mon café tout bouillant à me faire peler la gargatière, sans y penser, l’œil attaché sur la tasse bleue.
Synonyms
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.