geography
\dʒɪˈɒ.ɡrə.fi\
The verdict
“geography” is uncommon French (frequency #81,193 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,193
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Géographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geography · geography · French
geography · rank #81,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,193
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Georgio
Nearest frequency peer: Georgio (+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 « geography »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garnissent
garnissent
18,812 corpus weight
- GDP
GDP
18,810 corpus weight
- geography
geography
18,808 corpus weight
- Georgio
Georgio
18,807 corpus weight
- giallo
giallo
18,806 corpus weight
- giovani
giovani
18,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geography » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geography |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɪˈɒ.ɡrə.fi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geography » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geography is uncommon French at frequency #81,193 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɪˈɒ.ɡrə.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for geography in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is geography, spelled G-E-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Géographie.
- 2Pays, lieu sur Terre.
- 3Toilettes (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how geography appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So those are just some pilot projects that, as we learn from those, we'll know what we’re going to do in other geographies.
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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