gorgone
\ɡɔʁ.ɡɔn\
The verdict
“gorgone” is uncommon French (frequency #70,683 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,683
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gorgone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gorgone · gorgone · French
gorgone · rank #70,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goodnight
Nearest frequency peer: goodnight (-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 « gorgone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- globule
globule
29,322 corpus weight
- goldsmith
goldsmith
29,321 corpus weight
- goodnight
goodnight
29,319 corpus weight
- gorgone
gorgone
29,318 corpus weight
- gracier
gracier
29,315 corpus weight
- Grandville
Grandville
29,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gorgone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gorgone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔʁ.ɡɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gorgone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gorgone is uncommon French at frequency #70,683 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔʁ.ɡɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gorgone, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gorgone, spelled G-O-R-G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Gorgone.
- 2Genre de polypiers communs en Méditerranée, ils ressemblent à des arbrisseaux.
- 3Espèce de papillon diurne de la famille des nymphalidés.
- 4Femme méchante ou très laide.
- 5Tête décorative, vue de face, à la bouche ouverte, à chevelure de serpents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gorgone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gorgone trouvée gisante sur le sol, perte de connaissance et déshydratation.
Et la décoration s’avère d’un raffinement inouï. Sur ses deux anses en volutes, la gorgone Méduse est représentée avec un visage effrayant, un corselet d’écailles et les jambes serpentiformes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).