gigogne
\ʒi.ɡɔɲ\
The verdict
“gigogne” is uncommon French (frequency #96,962 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,962
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Utilisé dans l'expression mère Gigogne ou mère gigogne : femme qui a beaucoup d’enfants, par allusion à un personnage du théâtre des marionnettes qu’on représentait entouré de beaucoup d’enfants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ɡɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gigogne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gigogne is uncommon French at frequency #96,962 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ɡɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utilisé dans l'expression mère Gigogne ou mère gigogne : femme qui a beaucoup d’enfants, par allusion à un personnage du théâtre des marionnettes qu’on représentait entouré de beaucoup d’enfants.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gigogne, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 gigogne, spelled G-I-G-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Utilisé dans l'expression mère Gigogne ou mère gigogne : femme qui a beaucoup d’enfants, par allusion à un personnage du théâtre des marionnettes qu’on représentait entouré de beaucoup d’enfants.
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 “gigogne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-I-G-O-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.