Gondry

name

The verdict

“Gondry” is uncommon French (frequency #61,572 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,572
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-gondry · Gondry · French

Gondry · rank #61,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,572
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH godets

Nearest frequency peer: godets (-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 « Gondry »

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 « Gondry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Gondry
PropertyValue
HeadwordGondry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#61,572
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Gondry » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Gondrytombe 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: « godets » (#61,571), « Gottlieb » (#61,573), « GNV » (#61,570). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Gondry » est au #61,572. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Gondry is uncommon French at frequency #61,572 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Gondry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Gondry, spelled G-O-N-D-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Pierre Niney est tordant. Et ça se confirme, de façon éclatante, dans Le Livre des solutions, de Michel Gondry, film découvert à la quinzaine du Festival de Cannes.

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 "Gondry"?
"Gondry" is spelled G-O-N-D-R-Y.
What does "Gondry" mean?
As a proper noun, "Gondry" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Gondry" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list