Gévaudan
The verdict
“Gévaudan” is uncommon French (frequency #59,328 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,328
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne province méridionale de France, dont le territoire correspond approximativement à l’actuel département de la Lozère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gevaudan · Gévaudan · French
Gévaudan · rank #59,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,328
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH géodésique
Nearest frequency peer: géodésique (-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 « Gévaudan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guérisseuse
guérisseuse
40,676 corpus weight
- génocidaires
génocidaires
40,675 corpus weight
- géodésique
géodésique
40,674 corpus weight
- Gévaudan
Gévaudan
40,673 corpus weight
- hail
hail
40,672 corpus weight
- handi
handi
40,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gévaudan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gévaudan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gévaudan is uncommon French at frequency #59,328 among 2,617 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gévaudan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ces contrées [haute et basse Marche de Rouergue], les ségalas ou terres graveleuses ou granitiques ne produisent que du seigle… ici [dans le Gévaudan], comme sur les ségalas des Cévennes, la culture du sainfoin et du seigle.
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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