gaudium
\ˈɡau̯.di.um\
The verdict
“gaudium” is uncommon French (frequency #76,608 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,608
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaudium · gaudium · French
gaudium · rank #76,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,608
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaspacho
Nearest frequency peer: gaspacho (-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 « gaudium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garnement
garnement
23,396 corpus weight
- gaspacho
gaspacho
23,395 corpus weight
- gaudium
gaudium
23,393 corpus weight
- gaves
gaves
23,391 corpus weight
- gazettes
gazettes
23,390 corpus weight
- gazons
gazons
23,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaudium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaudium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡau̯.di.um\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaudium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaudium is uncommon French at frequency #76,608 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡau̯.di.um\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Joie.".
gaudium has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gaudium, spelled G-A-U-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Joie.
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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