gordien
\ɡɔʁ.djɛ̃\
The verdict
“gordien” is uncommon French (frequency #64,480 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,480
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inextricable, insoluble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gordien · gordien · French
gordien · rank #64,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH golfs
Nearest frequency peer: golfs (-2 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 « gordien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ginseng
ginseng
35,526 corpus weight
- glycémique
glycémique
35,525 corpus weight
- godes
godes
35,524 corpus weight
- golfs
golfs
35,523 corpus weight
- gordien
gordien
35,521 corpus weight
- graduate
graduate
35,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gordien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gordien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɔʁ.djɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gordien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gordien is uncommon French at frequency #64,480 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡɔʁ.djɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inextricable, insoluble.".
gordien has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gordien, spelled G-O-R-D-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Inextricable, insoluble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gordien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette facile difficulté est d'une douloureuse facilité : c’est la facilité de la très amère et très coûteuse intention pour laquelle chaque moi s’avère irremplaçable et qui tient toute dans l’instant, et tranche d’un coup notre situation gordienne.
Le présent est cet acte gordien par lequel j'engage le futur, supprime les possibles, accepte en une fois tout le paquet.
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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