Ginsburg
The verdict
“Ginsburg” is uncommon French (frequency #88,670 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,670
- 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-ginsburg · Ginsburg · French
Ginsburg · rank #88,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,670
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gilot
Nearest frequency peer: Gilot (-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 « Ginsburg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gentillesses
gentillesses
11,336 corpus weight
- gestuelles
gestuelles
11,335 corpus weight
- Gilot
Gilot
11,332 corpus weight
- Ginsburg
Ginsburg
11,331 corpus weight
- giornale
giornale
11,330 corpus weight
- goudrons
goudrons
11,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ginsburg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ginsburg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ginsburg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ginsburg is uncommon French at frequency #88,670 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ginsburg, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ginsburg, spelled G-I-N-S-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ginsburg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le « projet plaît beaucoup aux habitants, observe Sindy Thibaud, animatrice jeunesse au Centre Paris Anim Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dans le Forum des Halles (1ᵉʳ). On est point de collecte depuis l'année dernière, on relaie l’information auprès des familles du quartier, et l’initiative fait écho. »
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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