Gingras
\ʒɛ̃.ɡʁa\
The verdict
“Gingras” is uncommon French (frequency #63,025 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,025
- 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-gingras · Gingras · French
Gingras · rank #63,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,025
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glabres
Nearest frequency peer: glabres (+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 « Gingras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gershwin
Gershwin
36,979 corpus weight
- Gesù
Gesù
36,978 corpus weight
- Gingras
Gingras
36,976 corpus weight
- glabres
glabres
36,975 corpus weight
- glissants
glissants
36,974 corpus weight
- Goddard
Goddard
36,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gingras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gingras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛ̃.ɡʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gingras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gingras is uncommon French at frequency #63,025 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒɛ̃.ɡʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Gingras doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Gingras, spelled G-I-N-G-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gingras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La professeure en nutrition à l’Université de Montréal Véronique Gingras a eu recours à cette approche avec sa propre fille parce qu’elle trouve intéressante l’idée que le bébé écoute les signaux de faim et de satiété qu’il ressent.
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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