Goddard
The verdict
“Goddard” is uncommon French (frequency #63,028 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,028
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goddard · Goddard · French
Goddard · rank #63,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,028
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissants
Nearest frequency peer: glissants (-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 « Goddard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gingras
Gingras
36,976 corpus weight
- glabres
glabres
36,975 corpus weight
- glissants
glissants
36,974 corpus weight
- Goddard
Goddard
36,973 corpus weight
- Gorki
Gorki
36,972 corpus weight
- goudronnée
goudronnée
36,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Goddard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goddard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Goddard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Goddard is uncommon French at frequency #63,028 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
Goddard has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Goddard, spelled G-O-D-D-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Goddard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour illustrer cette coopération spatiale, les journalistes qui suivent la délégation française étaient conviés, mardi, au centre de vol spatial Goddard de la Nasa, dans le Maryland.
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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