goblin
\ˈɡɒb.lɪn\
The verdict
“goblin” is uncommon French (frequency #81,198 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,198
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gobelin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goblin · goblin · French
goblin · rank #81,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,198
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Giulietta
Nearest frequency peer: Giulietta (-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 « goblin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- giallo
giallo
18,806 corpus weight
- giovani
giovani
18,805 corpus weight
- Giulietta
Giulietta
18,804 corpus weight
- goblin
goblin
18,803 corpus weight
- gond
gond
18,802 corpus weight
- gouines
gouines
18,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goblin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goblin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡɒb.lɪn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goblin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goblin is uncommon French at frequency #81,198 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡɒb.lɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gobelin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for goblin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is goblin, spelled G-O-B-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Gobelin.
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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