girolles
\ʒi.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“girolles” is uncommon French (frequency #95,959 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,959
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de girolle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-girolles · girolles · French
girolles · rank #95,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,959
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Glandu
Nearest frequency peer: Glandu (+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 « girolles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gicleurs
gicleurs
4,046 corpus weight
- gillon
gillon
4,045 corpus weight
- gimmicks
gimmicks
4,044 corpus weight
- girolles
girolles
4,042 corpus weight
- Glandu
Glandu
4,041 corpus weight
- gloutons
gloutons
4,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « girolles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girolles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « girolles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
girolles is uncommon French at frequency #95,959 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de girolle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for girolles, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is girolles, spelled G-I-R-O-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de girolle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how girolles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec une fierté évidente, elle déposa au centre de la table un long plat de faïence ovale et courut à la cuisine chercher une casserolette de cuivre dans laquelle mijotaient des girolles à la crème.
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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