gnocchi
\ɲɔ.ki\
The verdict
“gnocchi” is uncommon French (frequency #76,620 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,620
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte alimentaire préparée soit avec de la farine de blé, des pommes de terre pochées à l’eau, soit une préparation à base de semoule de blé dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gnocchi · gnocchi · French
gnocchi · rank #76,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,620
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Glastonbury
Nearest frequency peer: Glastonbury (-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 « gnocchi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Glastonbury
Glastonbury
23,382 corpus weight
- gnocchi
gnocchi
23,381 corpus weight
- godart
godart
23,380 corpus weight
- gouverna
gouverna
23,378 corpus weight
- graisseuses
graisseuses
23,377 corpus weight
- Grandin
Grandin
23,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gnocchi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gnocchi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɲɔ.ki\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gnocchi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gnocchi is uncommon French at frequency #76,620 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɲɔ.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pâte alimentaire préparée soit avec de la farine de blé, des pommes de terre pochées à l’eau, soit une préparation à base de semoule de blé dur.".
gnocchi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gnocchi, spelled G-N-O-C-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1Pâte alimentaire préparée soit avec de la farine de blé, des pommes de terre pochées à l’eau, soit une préparation à base de semoule de blé dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gnocchi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les cuisines, Martha, sa vieille nourrice, roulait des gnocchis sur une grande table recouverte de lave émaillée.
Avec une fourchette appuyez sur chaque bout de pâte et décollez le gnocchi en le faisant rouler.
This word in other languages
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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