gaussien
\ɡo.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“gaussien” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à Gauss, à ses travaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaussien · gaussien · French
gaussien · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaussien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡo.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gaussien is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡo.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gaussien, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gaussien, spelled G-A-U-S-S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à Gauss, à ses travaux.
- 2Qui se rapporte à un certain type de flou obtenu en réglant chaque pixel sur la moyenne des pixels qui l’entourent dans un certain rayon (retouche d’image et graphisme).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaussien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le processus est gaussien, ces matrices suffisent pour le décrire à tous ordres.
Variable gaussienne : variable aléatoire dont la densité est entièrement déterminée par la donnée de ses deux premiers moments, dit moyenne et variance. On montre que la densité gaussienne est solution d'un système dynamique stochastique si et seulement si tous les bruits d'excitation sont gaussiens,que la densité initiale de l'état est gaussienne et que…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.