Goetz
\ɡøts\
The verdict
“Goetz” is uncommon French (frequency #60,828 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,828
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goetz · Goetz · French
Goetz · rank #60,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,828
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gobi
Nearest frequency peer: gobi (-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 « Goetz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gnagnagna
gnagnagna
39,176 corpus weight
- gnostique
gnostique
39,175 corpus weight
- gobi
gobi
39,174 corpus weight
- Goetz
Goetz
39,173 corpus weight
- gombo
gombo
39,172 corpus weight
- goro
goro
39,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Goetz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goetz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡøts\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Goetz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Goetz is uncommon French at frequency #60,828 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡøts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Goetz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Goetz, spelled G-O-E-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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