gavroche
\ɡa.vʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“gavroche” is an uncommon French word, ranked #64,474 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,474
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeune Parisien déluré, titi, jeune voyou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gavroche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.vʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gavroche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gavroche is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.vʁɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,474 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Jeune Parisien déluré, titi, jeune voyou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gavroche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gavroche, spelled G-A-V-R-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune Parisien déluré, titi, jeune voyou.
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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Using “gavroche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-V-R-O-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡa.vʁɔʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.