goélands
\ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“goélands” is uncommon French (frequency #65,195 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,195
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de goéland.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goelands · goélands · French
goélands · rank #65,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,195
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gou
Nearest frequency peer: gou (-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 « goélands »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Golgotha
Golgotha
34,811 corpus weight
- gonades
gonades
34,810 corpus weight
- gou
gou
34,807 corpus weight
- goélands
goélands
34,806 corpus weight
- Grigori
Grigori
34,803 corpus weight
- grinder
grinder
34,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goélands » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goélands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goélands » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goélands is uncommon French at frequency #65,195 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ.e.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de goéland.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for goélands, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 goélands, spelled G-O-É-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de goéland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goélands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est donc la tête bien pleine que j’effectuai mon paseo maritime et aéré, sous les survols des mouettes et des goélands, pendant qu’au ras des flots une escadrille de cormorans rejouait la bataille du Pacifique.
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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