Gévaudan
The verdict
“Gévaudan” is uncommon French (frequency #59,328 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,328
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne province méridionale de France, dont le territoire correspond approximativement à l’actuel département de la Lozère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gévaudan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gévaudan” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gévaudan is uncommon French at frequency #59,328 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne province méridionale de France, dont le territoire correspond approximativement à l’actuel département de la Lozère.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gévaudan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Gévaudan, spelled G-É-V-A-U-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ancienne province méridionale de France, dont le territoire correspond approximativement à l’actuel département de la Lozère.
This word in other languages
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 “Gévaudan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-É-V-A-U-D-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.