gargouillis
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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gargouillis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bruit que fait l’eau en tombant d’une gargouille. Pronounced \ɡaʁ.ɡu.ji\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gargouillis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ɡu.ji\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for gargouillis is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.ɡu.ji\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gargouillis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gargouillis, spelled G-A-R-G-O-U-I-L-L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bruit que fait l’eau en tombant d’une gargouille.
- 2Gargouillement, bruits produits par le déplacement de liquides dans l’estomac et les intestins.
- 3Bruit analogue à celui que fait l’eau en tombant d’une gargouille.
- 4Bruit que fait l’eau qui bouillonne.
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