ghazal
\ɡa.zal\
The verdict
“ghazal” is uncommon French (frequency #91,735 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,735
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de ghazel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ghazal · ghazal · French
ghazal · rank #91,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,735
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gerbille
Nearest frequency peer: gerbille (-2 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 « ghazal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- geno
geno
8,271 corpus weight
- genouillères
genouillères
8,270 corpus weight
- gerbille
gerbille
8,268 corpus weight
- ghazal
ghazal
8,266 corpus weight
- Gonçalo
Gonçalo
8,262 corpus weight
- Gorgias
Gorgias
8,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ghazal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ghazal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.zal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ghazal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ghazal is uncommon French at frequency #91,735 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.zal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de ghazel.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ghazal in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ghazal, spelled G-H-A-Z-A-L.
Definition
- 1Variante de ghazel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ghazal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le poète compose le ghazal en principe oralement (et dans le film qui nous intéresse, en faisant un nœud à son mouchoir à chaque vers) et le récite à ses amis, […]
À Hérat, devant le tombeau de Mir-Alisher-NavoÏ, grand vizir et poète, Maïke l’analphabète se mit soudain à réciter des ghazals en persan et, bouleversé par la magnificence sauvage de cette poésie, Djebral, le serviteur qui s’occupait du tombeau, l’invita à passer un moment chez lui, bien qu’il fût shiite.
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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