Gavras
\ɡa.vʁas\
The verdict
“Gavras” is uncommon French (frequency #68,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,313
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gavras · Gavras · French
Gavras · rank #68,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,313
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garat
Nearest frequency peer: garat (-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 « Gavras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fèvre
fèvre
31,694 corpus weight
- garat
garat
31,689 corpus weight
- Gavras
Gavras
31,688 corpus weight
- giclée
giclée
31,686 corpus weight
- giffard
giffard
31,685 corpus weight
- gosset
gosset
31,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gavras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gavras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.vʁas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gavras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gavras is uncommon French at frequency #68,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡa.vʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gavras, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gavras, spelled G-A-V-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gavras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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