goodwill
\ɡud.wil\
The verdict
“goodwill” is uncommon French (frequency #77,564 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,564
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Survaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goodwill · goodwill · French
goodwill · rank #77,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,564
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gonçalves
Nearest frequency peer: Gonçalves (-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 « goodwill »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- germent
germent
22,444 corpus weight
- gmelin
gmelin
22,440 corpus weight
- Gombe
Gombe
22,439 corpus weight
- Gonçalves
Gonçalves
22,438 corpus weight
- goodwill
goodwill
22,437 corpus weight
- gramophone
gramophone
22,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goodwill » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goodwill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡud.wil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goodwill » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goodwill is uncommon French at frequency #77,564 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡud.wil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Survaleur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for goodwill in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is goodwill, spelled G-O-O-D-W-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Survaleur.
Antonyms
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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