gondi
The verdict
“gondi” is uncommon French (frequency #73,192 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,192
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rongeur herbivore de la famille des Ctenodactylidae, vivant dans les déserts rocheux dans le Nord de l’Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gondi · gondi · French
gondi · rank #73,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,192
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glou
Nearest frequency peer: glou (-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 « gondi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gita
gita
26,812 corpus weight
- glissera
glissera
26,811 corpus weight
- glou
glou
26,810 corpus weight
- gondi
gondi
26,809 corpus weight
- gonorrhée
gonorrhée
26,808 corpus weight
- gow
gow
26,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gondi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gondi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gondi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gondi is uncommon French at frequency #73,192 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rongeur herbivore de la famille des Ctenodactylidae, vivant dans les déserts rocheux dans le Nord de l’Afrique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gondi, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 gondi, spelled G-O-N-D-I.
Definition
- 1Rongeur herbivore de la famille des Ctenodactylidae, vivant dans les déserts rocheux dans le Nord de l’Afrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gondi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il découvre un nouveau parasite, le Toxoplasma gondii, dans le sang du gondi, un petit rongeur que l’on croise dans ces régions du sud.
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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