gastronome
\ɡas.tʁɔ.nɔm\
The verdict
“gastronome” is uncommon French (frequency #80,240 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,240
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui connaît l’art de faire bonne chère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gastronome · gastronome · French
gastronome · rank #80,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,240
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garantes
Nearest frequency peer: garantes (-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 « gastronome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gager
gager
19,764 corpus weight
- gamineries
gamineries
19,763 corpus weight
- garantes
garantes
19,762 corpus weight
- gastronome
gastronome
19,761 corpus weight
- geel
geel
19,759 corpus weight
- gentillet
gentillet
19,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gastronome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gastronome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡas.tʁɔ.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gastronome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gastronome is uncommon French at frequency #80,240 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡas.tʁɔ.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gastronome in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 gastronome, spelled G-A-S-T-R-O-N-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui connaît l’art de faire bonne chère.
- 2Qui aime à faire bonne chère.
- 3Sorte de plat profond, rectangulaire à couvercle, à fond épais, qu'il est possible de mettre dans un four.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gastronome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la gauche est l'auberge du Veau qui tette, renommée pour ses pieds de mouton à la poulette, et que les gastronomes ne confondent point avec celle du coin de la rue Saint-Denis, à l'enseigne du Veau qui mange.
Cela m’a paru immonde, ces gens qui attendaient à la porte, figures rouges et massives. Rien de plus bas dans l’échelle humaine que ce qu’on appelle un gastronome en train de faire son voyage gastronomique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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