gorge
French, noun
gorge is spelled G-O-R-G-E (5 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,602nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gorge is a French feminine noun meaning “throat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of gorger. With an accent, gorgé is a different word: “past participle of gorger”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie antérieure du cou de l’être humain ou de l’animal”.
What does gorge mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethroat
- 2
femininebreast
- 3
femininegorge
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of gorger
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie antérieure du cou de l’être humain ou de l’animal. 2. Gosier, le dedans de la gorge. 3. Voix de la gorge. 4. Siège de la voix.
adjective: 1. Qui a beaucoup de voix, une bonne voix, en parlant d’un chien. 2. Qui a le cou ceint d’une couronne dont l’émail est différent de celui de l’animal, en parlant d’un lion, d’un cygne ou de tout autre animal. 3. Qui est enflé et plein de mauvaises humeurs.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gorge
- gorges plural
- gorgée feminine
- gorgés masculine plural
- gorgées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gorge
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gorge in French?
gorge appears 21 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).