Goossens
\ɡo.sɛns\
The verdict
“Goossens” is uncommon French (frequency #80,252 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,252
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goossens · Goossens · French
Goossens · rank #80,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,252
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gonflage
Nearest frequency peer: gonflage (-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 « Goossens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goh
goh
19,752 corpus weight
- golfeuse
golfeuse
19,751 corpus weight
- gonflage
gonflage
19,750 corpus weight
- Goossens
Goossens
19,749 corpus weight
- gord
gord
19,748 corpus weight
- goude
goude
19,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Goossens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goossens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡo.sɛns\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Goossens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Goossens is uncommon French at frequency #80,252 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡo.sɛns\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Goossens in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Goossens, spelled G-O-O-S-S-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais.
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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