Gonthier
\ɡɔ̃.tje\
The verdict
“Gonthier” is uncommon French (frequency #67,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,554
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gonthier · Gonthier · French
Gonthier · rank #67,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,554
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goinfre
Nearest frequency peer: goinfre (-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 « Gonthier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gnocchis
gnocchis
32,451 corpus weight
- godillots
godillots
32,450 corpus weight
- goinfre
goinfre
32,448 corpus weight
- Gonthier
Gonthier
32,447 corpus weight
- goules
goules
32,445 corpus weight
- grandissant…
grandissantes
32,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gonthier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gonthier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ̃.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gonthier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gonthier is uncommon French at frequency #67,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ̃.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gonthier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 Gonthier, spelled G-O-N-T-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gonthier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gonthier de Bagneaux fut évêque du Mans de 1368 à 1385, puis archevêque de Sens en 1385.
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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