gavroche
\ɡa.vʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“gavroche” is uncommon French (frequency #64,474 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,474
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune Parisien déluré, titi, jeune voyou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gavroche · gavroche · French
gavroche · rank #64,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,474
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gauler
Nearest frequency peer: gauler (-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 « gavroche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Garoua
Garoua
35,530 corpus weight
- Gatien
Gatien
35,529 corpus weight
- gauler
gauler
35,528 corpus weight
- gavroche
gavroche
35,527 corpus weight
- ginseng
ginseng
35,526 corpus weight
- glycémique
glycémique
35,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gavroche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « gavroche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gavroche is uncommon French at frequency #64,474 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.vʁɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gavroche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ritournelle de la chanson des Girondins se promenait par les rues, psalmodiée par la voix des gavroches.
En vain quelques gavroches gouailleurs essayaient de tourner la chose en plaisanterie.
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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