Gattuso
The verdict
“Gattuso” is uncommon French (frequency #89,750 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,750
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gattuso · Gattuso · French
Gattuso · rank #89,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gasy
Nearest frequency peer: gasy (-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 « Gattuso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galvanisati…
galvanisation
10,255 corpus weight
- Gaspésien
Gaspésien
10,253 corpus weight
- gasy
gasy
10,252 corpus weight
- Gattuso
Gattuso
10,251 corpus weight
- gauchiasse
gauchiasse
10,250 corpus weight
- gentili
gentili
10,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gattuso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gattuso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gattuso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gattuso is uncommon French at frequency #89,750 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Gattuso has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Gattuso, spelled G-A-T-T-U-S-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gattuso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant même l’éviction de Laurent Blanc, l’Américain a ainsi rencontré Graham Potter (ex-Chelsea), Oliver Glasner (ex-Francfort), Habib Beye (Red Star), Gennaro Gattuso (ex-Valence) et désormais Frank Lampard (ex-Chelsea).
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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