goss
\ɡɔs\
The verdict
“goss” is uncommon French (frequency #50,241 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,241
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de gießen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goss · goss · French
goss · rank #50,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,241
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Godbout
Nearest frequency peer: Godbout (-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 « goss »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Giraudoux
Giraudoux
49,763 corpus weight
- Godbout
Godbout
49,761 corpus weight
- goss
goss
49,760 corpus weight
- goth
goth
49,759 corpus weight
- grammairien
grammairien
49,758 corpus weight
- grenadine
grenadine
49,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goss » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɔs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goss » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goss is uncommon French at frequency #50,241 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for goss, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is goss, spelled G-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de gießen.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de gießen.
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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