géode
The verdict
“géode” is an uncommon French word, ranked #91,762 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #91,762
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cavité rocheuse tapissée de cristaux et autres matières minérales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | géode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ɔd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “géode” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for géode is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.ɔd\. Corpus data places it at rank #91,762 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for géode in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is géode, spelled G-É-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavité rocheuse tapissée de cristaux et autres matières minérales.
- 2Polyèdre non-régulier convexe inscrit dans une sphère.
- 3Bâtiment en forme de globe.
- 4Cavité d'origine pathologique, qui apparait dans les tissus d'un organe comme un os ou le poumon.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #91,762 in French
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Using “géode”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-É-O-D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒe.ɔd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby French words
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