gauchère
\ɡo.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“gauchère” is uncommon French (frequency #67,543 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,543
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui se sert habilement de la main gauche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gauchère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡo.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gauchère” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gauchère is uncommon French at frequency #67,543 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡo.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui se sert habilement de la main gauche.".
gauchère doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gauchère, spelled G-A-U-C-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui se sert habilement de la main gauche.
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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Using “gauchère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-U-C-H-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.