gaveau
\ɡa.vo\
The verdict
“gaveau” is uncommon French (frequency #88,664 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,664
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’une association d’ouvriers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaveau · gaveau · French
gaveau · rank #88,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,664
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gentillesses
Nearest frequency peer: gentillesses (+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 « gaveau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gamaches
Gamaches
11,341 corpus weight
- gantelet
gantelet
11,339 corpus weight
- gaveau
gaveau
11,337 corpus weight
- gentillesses
gentillesses
11,336 corpus weight
- gestuelles
gestuelles
11,335 corpus weight
- Gilot
Gilot
11,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaveau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.vo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaveau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaveau is uncommon French at frequency #88,664 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre d’une association d’ouvriers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gaveau, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 gaveau, spelled G-A-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Membre d’une association d’ouvriers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaveau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour n’être pas crapuleux, c’est-à-dire mus par de motifs sordides ayant trait à l’argent ou aux femmes, lesdits dévorants et gaveaux n’en étaient pas moins de redoutables durs à cuire.
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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