gonades

\ɡɔ.nad\

/\ɡɔ.nad\/ noun

The verdict

“gonades” is uncommon French (frequency #65,191 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,191
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gonade.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gonades · gonades · French

gonades · rank #65,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,191
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH Golgotha

Nearest frequency peer: Golgotha (-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 « gonades »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gonades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gonades
PropertyValue
Headwordgonades
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɔ.nad\
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,191
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « gonades » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gonadestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Golgotha » (#65,190), « Goldoni » (#65,189), « gou » (#65,194). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gonades » est au #65,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gonades is uncommon French at frequency #65,191 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gonade.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gonades, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gonades, spelled G-O-N-A-D-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de gonade.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gonades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En fonction de la réserve ovarienne de chaque patiente, des doses de gonadotrophines (des hormones qui exercent leur fonction sur les gonades) sont administrées en sous-cutané.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gonades"?
"gonades" is spelled G-O-N-A-D-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɔ.nad\.
What does "gonades" mean?
As a noun, "gonades" means: Pluriel de gonade.
How do you pronounce "gonades"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gonades" is \ɡɔ.nad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gonades" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gonades", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list