Gothic
\ˈɡɒθ.ɪk\
The verdict
“Gothic” is uncommon French (frequency #71,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,554
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gothique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gothic · Gothic · French
Gothic · rank #71,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,554
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goret
Nearest frequency peer: goret (-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 « Gothic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glutamate
glutamate
28,451 corpus weight
- goret
goret
28,448 corpus weight
- Gothic
Gothic
28,447 corpus weight
- Gouy
Gouy
28,446 corpus weight
- goûtant
goûtant
28,445 corpus weight
- griots
griots
28,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gothic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gothic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɡɒθ.ɪk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gothic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gothic is uncommon French at frequency #71,554 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɡɒθ.ɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gothic, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Gothic, spelled G-O-T-H-I-C.
Definition
- 1Gothique.
- 2Gothique.
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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