goguette
\ɡɔ.ɡɛt\
The verdict
“goguette” is uncommon French (frequency #66,766 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,766
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joyeux festin où la liberté est de règle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goguette · goguette · French
goguette · rank #66,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,766
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gosselies
Nearest frequency peer: Gosselies (+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 « goguette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gluante
gluante
33,238 corpus weight
- Gnagna
Gnagna
33,237 corpus weight
- goguette
goguette
33,235 corpus weight
- Gosselies
Gosselies
33,234 corpus weight
- goujat
goujat
33,233 corpus weight
- Granet
Granet
33,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goguette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goguette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.ɡɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goguette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goguette is uncommon French at frequency #66,766 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ.ɡɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for goguette, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 goguette, spelled G-O-G-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Joyeux festin où la liberté est de règle.
- 2Plaisanterie, propos joyeux, allant parfois jusqu’à être offensant.
- 3Société chantante, sociétés organisant des soirées chantantes.
- 4Cabaret où se réunit une société chantante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goguette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par chaque fenêtre on apercevait des tablées de monde endimanché, et des cris sortaient des maisons en goguette.
Certains caboulots, ici, ne ferment jamais réellement, et quelle que soit l’heure, vous apercevez toujours […] des noceurs, des gens en goguette.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).