gascons
\ɡas.kɔ̃\
The verdict
“gascons” is uncommon French (frequency #50,236 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,236
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de gascon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gascons · gascons · French
gascons · rank #50,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,236
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH galèrent
Nearest frequency peer: galèrent (-2 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 « gascons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- férule
férule
49,769 corpus weight
- Gaillon
Gaillon
49,768 corpus weight
- galèrent
galèrent
49,767 corpus weight
- gascons
gascons
49,765 corpus weight
- Giraudoux
Giraudoux
49,763 corpus weight
- Godbout
Godbout
49,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gascons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gascons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡas.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gascons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gascons is uncommon French at frequency #50,236 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡas.kɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de gascon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gascons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gascons, spelled G-A-S-C-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de gascon.
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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