girlfriend
\ˈɡɝl.ˌfɹɛnd\
The verdict
“girlfriend” is uncommon French (frequency #57,297 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,297
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite amie, copine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-girlfriend · girlfriend · French
girlfriend · rank #57,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,297
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH girouettes
Nearest frequency peer: girouettes (+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 « girlfriend »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gaudreault
Gaudreault
42,709 corpus weight
- gelais
gelais
42,707 corpus weight
- girlfriend
girlfriend
42,704 corpus weight
- girouettes
girouettes
42,703 corpus weight
- glacer
glacer
42,702 corpus weight
- gracia
gracia
42,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « girlfriend » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girlfriend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡɝl.ˌfɹɛnd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « girlfriend » en français
Rare enough to double-check
girlfriend is uncommon French at frequency #57,297 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡɝl.ˌfɹɛnd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite amie, copine.".
girlfriend doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is girlfriend, spelled G-I-R-L-F-R-I-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Petite amie, copine.
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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