Giraudoux
\ʒi.ʁɔ.du\
The verdict
“Giraudoux” is uncommon French (frequency #50,238 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,238
- 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-giraudoux · Giraudoux · French
Giraudoux · rank #50,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,238
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gascons
Nearest frequency peer: gascons (-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 « Giraudoux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galèrent
galèrent
49,767 corpus weight
- gascons
gascons
49,765 corpus weight
- Giraudoux
Giraudoux
49,763 corpus weight
- Godbout
Godbout
49,761 corpus weight
- goss
goss
49,760 corpus weight
- goth
goth
49,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Giraudoux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Giraudoux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁɔ.du\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Giraudoux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Giraudoux is uncommon French at frequency #50,238 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒi.ʁɔ.du\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Giraudoux in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Giraudoux, spelled G-I-R-A-U-D-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Jean Giraudoux, écrivain français, 1882-1944.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Giraudoux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2 février 44 – Je pense sans cesse à, et je rêve de Giraudoux. Je me dis à brûle-pourpoint : « Mais qu’est-ce que j’ai qui m’ennuie dans mon arrière-boutique ? – Ah ! oui. Giraudoux est mort.
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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