gosh
\ɡɑːʃ\
The verdict
“gosh” is uncommon French (frequency #86,751 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,751
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression de surprise ou d'enthousiasme employée comme euphémisme à la place de god, comme dans bon sang au lieu de bon Dieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gosh · gosh · French
gosh · rank #86,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,751
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gobent
Nearest frequency peer: gobent (-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 « gosh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glandeur
glandeur
13,255 corpus weight
- glaçante
glaçante
13,254 corpus weight
- gobent
gobent
13,252 corpus weight
- gosh
gosh
13,250 corpus weight
- grandson
grandson
13,247 corpus weight
- grasso
grasso
13,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gosh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gosh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɡɑːʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gosh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gosh is uncommon French at frequency #86,751 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ɡɑːʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression de surprise ou d'enthousiasme employée comme euphémisme à la place de god, comme dans bon sang au lieu de bon Dieu.".
gosh has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gosh, spelled G-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1Expression de surprise ou d'enthousiasme employée comme euphémisme à la place de god, comme dans bon sang au lieu de bon Dieu.
Synonyms
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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