gores
\ɡɔʁ\
The verdict
“gores” is uncommon French (frequency #83,914 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,914
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel du nom commun gore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gores · gores · French
gores · rank #83,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,914
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glyphe
Nearest frequency peer: glyphe (-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 « gores »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glucide
glucide
16,090 corpus weight
- glycérol
glycérol
16,089 corpus weight
- glyphe
glyphe
16,088 corpus weight
- gores
gores
16,087 corpus weight
- gour
gour
16,086 corpus weight
- graminée
graminée
16,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gores » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gores |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gores » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gores is uncommon French at frequency #83,914 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel du nom commun gore.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gores, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gores, spelled G-O-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel du nom commun gore.
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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