gauchère
\ɡo.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“gauchère” is uncommon French (frequency #67,543 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,543
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui se sert habilement de la main gauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gauchere · gauchère · French
gauchère · rank #67,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Garnett
Nearest frequency peer: Garnett (-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 « gauchère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garagistes
garagistes
32,461 corpus weight
- gargouilles
gargouilles
32,460 corpus weight
- Garnett
Garnett
32,459 corpus weight
- gauchère
gauchère
32,458 corpus weight
- Genlis
Genlis
32,457 corpus weight
- gerra
gerra
32,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gauchère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « gauchère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gauchère is uncommon French at frequency #67,543 among 2,617 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gauchère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a découvert subitement une gauchère à la volée superbe, au service-volée impressionnant et au smash dévastateur.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).