girouette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,103
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
girouette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de fer-blanc ou d’autre matière mince et légère, ordinairement en forme de flèche empennée ou de coq, qu’on pose sur un pivot en un lieu élevé (en général au faîte d’un édifice ou du mât d’un... Pronounced \ʒi.ʁwɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girouette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁwɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for girouette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.ʁwɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,103 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for girouette, with forms such as "ggirouette", "gioruette", and "giroeutte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is girouette, spelled G-I-R-O-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de fer-blanc ou d’autre matière mince et légère, ordinairement en forme de flèche empennée ou de coq, qu’on pose sur un pivot en un lieu élevé (en général au faîte d’un édifice ou du mât d’un bateau) de manière qu’elle tourne au gré du vent et qu’elle en indique la direction.
- 2Position de sécurité d’une grue à tour, dans laquelle le bras de grue est libre de son mouvement, selon le sens du vent.
- 3Personne qui change souvent d’avis, de sentiment, de parti.
- 4Dispositif d’information des véhicules de transport en commun (métro, tramway, bus, cars...) indiquant généralement le numéro et la destination de la ligne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggirouette,gioruette,giroeutte,girouete,girouetet,giroutete,girrouette,giruoette,griouette,igrouette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for girouette
Misspelling Variants of "girouette"
Frequency rank: #34,103 in French
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Nearby French words
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