gioia
\ˈd͡ʒɔ.ja\
The verdict
“gioia” is uncommon French (frequency #89,758 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,758
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joie, allégresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gioia · gioia · French
gioia · rank #89,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gigabyte
Nearest frequency peer: gigabyte (-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 « gioia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gentle
gentle
10,246 corpus weight
- georgiana
georgiana
10,245 corpus weight
- gigabyte
gigabyte
10,244 corpus weight
- gioia
gioia
10,243 corpus weight
- Girona
Girona
10,242 corpus weight
- glandeurs
glandeurs
10,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gioia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gioia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈd͡ʒɔ.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gioia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gioia is uncommon French at frequency #89,758 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈd͡ʒɔ.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Joie, allégresse.".
gioia has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 gioia, spelled G-I-O-I-A.
Definition
- 1Joie, allégresse.
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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