gargouilles
\ɡaʁ.ɡuj\
The verdict
“gargouilles” is uncommon French (frequency #67,541 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,541
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gargouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gargouilles · gargouilles · French
gargouilles · rank #67,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,541
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garagistes
Nearest frequency peer: garagistes (-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 « gargouilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galeux
galeux
32,463 corpus weight
- galleries
galleries
32,462 corpus weight
- garagistes
garagistes
32,461 corpus weight
- gargouilles
gargouilles
32,460 corpus weight
- Garnett
Garnett
32,459 corpus weight
- gauchère
gauchère
32,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gargouilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gargouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ɡuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gargouilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gargouilles is uncommon French at frequency #67,541 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.ɡuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gargouille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gargouilles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gargouilles, spelled G-A-R-G-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gargouille.
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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