goéland
\ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“goéland” is uncommon French (frequency #63,031 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,031
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand oiseau palmipède marin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goeland · goéland · French
goéland · rank #63,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 194,371
- PHOTO-FINISH goudronnée
Nearest frequency peer: goudronnée (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “goéland”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Goddard
Goddard
36,973 corpus weight
- Gorki
Gorki
36,972 corpus weight
- goudronnée
goudronnée
36,971 corpus weight
- goéland
goéland
36,970 corpus weight
- Grab
Grab
36,969 corpus weight
- grandie
grandie
36,968 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “goéland” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goéland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goéland” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
goéland is uncommon French at frequency #63,031 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand oiseau palmipède marin.".
goéland doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 goéland, spelled G-O-É-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Grand oiseau palmipède marin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goéland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les goélands à l’aile grise Les hirondelles de la mer À leurs petits les jours de brise Apprennent le chemin de l’air […]
[…] et l’on voyait déjà quelques embarcations filer doucement sur l’eau que battaient les grands avirons, pareils à des vols de goélands lents et bas.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "goéland", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.