Gorée
\ɡɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“Gorée” is uncommon French (frequency #54,612 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,612
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île du Sénégal au large de Dakar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goree · Gorée · French
Gorée · rank #54,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,612
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gilda
Nearest frequency peer: Gilda (-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 « Gorée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garrigues
garrigues
45,391 corpus weight
- Gilda
Gilda
45,390 corpus weight
- Gorée
Gorée
45,389 corpus weight
- gouda
gouda
45,388 corpus weight
- greffés
greffés
45,387 corpus weight
- grincement
grincement
45,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gorée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gorée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gorée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gorée is uncommon French at frequency #54,612 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gorée, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gorée, spelled G-O-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Île du Sénégal au large de Dakar.
- 2Commune du Sénégal constituée par cette île.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gorée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au large des côtes du Sénégal, en face de Dakar, Gorée a été du XVe au XIXe siècle le plus grand centre de commerce d’esclaves de la côte africaine.
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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