gosselinage
\ɡɔ.sə.li.naʒ\
The verdict
“gosselinage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gosselinage · gosselinage · French
gosselinage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gosselinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.sə.li.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gosselinage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɔ.sə.li.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfance.".
gosselinage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gosselinage, spelled G-O-S-S-E-L-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Enfance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gosselinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La convoitise fait luire ses calots jaunis par un foie abonné, depuis son gosselinage, au cidre bouché et à la goutte.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.