girouettes
\ʒi.ʁwɛt\
The verdict
“girouettes” is uncommon French (frequency #57,298 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,298
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de girouette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-girouettes · girouettes · French
girouettes · rank #57,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,298
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH girlfriend
Nearest frequency peer: girlfriend (-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 « girouettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- gracias
gracias
42,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « girouettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girouettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁwɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « girouettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
girouettes is uncommon French at frequency #57,298 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ʁwɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de girouette.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for girouettes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 girouettes, spelled G-I-R-O-U-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de girouette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how girouettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le toit du porche, à forme aiguë, comme toute vieille charpente, se distinguait par deux girouettes perchées aux deux bouts d’une cime ornée de ces serrureries bizarres que les savants nomment un acrotère.
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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