Gordes
\ɡɔʁd\
The verdict
“Gordes” is uncommon French (frequency #69,876 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,876
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gordes · Gordes · French
Gordes · rank #69,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,876
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gourvennec
Nearest frequency peer: Gourvennec (+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 « Gordes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glissées
glissées
30,128 corpus weight
- golgi
golgi
30,127 corpus weight
- Gordes
Gordes
30,125 corpus weight
- Gourvennec
Gourvennec
30,124 corpus weight
- gratifie
gratifie
30,123 corpus weight
- greens
greens
30,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gordes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gordes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gordes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gordes is uncommon French at frequency #69,876 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse.".
Gordes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Gordes, spelled G-O-R-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse.
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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