gôche
\ɡoʃ\
The verdict
“gôche” is uncommon French (frequency #83,922 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,922
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La gauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goche · gôche · French
gôche · rank #83,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,922
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guimond
Nearest frequency peer: Guimond (-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 « gôche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gregori
Gregori
16,083 corpus weight
- grondements
grondements
16,082 corpus weight
- grub
grub
16,081 corpus weight
- Guimond
Guimond
16,080 corpus weight
- gôche
gôche
16,079 corpus weight
- hallebarde
hallebarde
16,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gôche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gôche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡoʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gôche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gôche is uncommon French at frequency #83,922 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡoʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La gauche.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gôche in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gôche, spelled G-Ô-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1La gauche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gôche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La droite re-découvre qu’elle est sans doute multiple. Le centre aimerait se compter. Mais contre la gauche, certains arguments perdurent comme si rien n’avait changé. De temps à autre, parfois fréquemment, on lit ici ou là une violente diatribe contre la « gôche ».
Le creuset de sa prise de conscience serait dans la détestation des élites : la caste, la supranationalité, Bruxelles, Berlin, la mondialisation, le parti médiatique, les bons sentiments, voire la « gôche », ce terme qui vient tout droit de l’extrême droite des années 1930.
Antonyms
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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