Gershwin
The verdict
“Gershwin” is uncommon French (frequency #63,022 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,022
- 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-gershwin · Gershwin · French
Gershwin · rank #63,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,022
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genêt
Nearest frequency peer: genêt (-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 « Gershwin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gentiane
gentiane
36,982 corpus weight
- gentrificat…
gentrification
36,981 corpus weight
- genêt
genêt
36,980 corpus weight
- Gershwin
Gershwin
36,979 corpus weight
- Gesù
Gesù
36,978 corpus weight
- Gingras
Gingras
36,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gershwin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gershwin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gershwin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gershwin is uncommon French at frequency #63,022 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gershwin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Gershwin, spelled G-E-R-S-H-W-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gershwin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laissez-vous entraîner dans l’univers magique des comédies musicales, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, Chicago, Show Boat, Chantons sous la pluie, My Fair Lady… où brillent les noms de George et Ira Gershwin, John Kander et Fred Ebb, Michael Stewart et Jerry Herman, Leonard Bernstein et tant d’autres.
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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