Goodall
The verdict
“Goodall” is uncommon French (frequency #85,762 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,762
- 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-goodall · Goodall · French
Goodall · rank #85,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,762
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH graduées
Nearest frequency peer: graduées (+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 « Goodall »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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gnous
14,242 corpus weight
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godfather
14,241 corpus weight
- Goodall
Goodall
14,239 corpus weight
- graduées
graduées
14,238 corpus weight
- grattoir
grattoir
14,237 corpus weight
- grattoirs
grattoirs
14,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Goodall » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goodall |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Goodall » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Goodall is uncommon French at frequency #85,762 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Goodall doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Goodall, spelled G-O-O-D-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Goodall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’éthologue Jane Goodall elle-même sera présente virtuellement, mais en direct, samedi, à 19 heures.
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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