gargotière
\ɡaʁ.ɡɔ.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“gargotière” 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) - Celle qui tient une gargote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gargotiere · gargotière · French
gargotière · 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 | gargotière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ɡɔ.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gargotière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gargotière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.ɡɔ.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gargotière in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 gargotière, spelled G-A-R-G-O-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui tient une gargote.
- 2Mauvaise cuisinière.
- 3Gosier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gargotière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madame ma gargotière, Comm’ je lui dois trop de sous, Me chass’ de sa tabl’, oui mais, d’ sa tabl’, moi j’ m'en fous, J’ai rendez-vous avec vous
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.