goto
\ɡo.tu\
The verdict
“goto” is uncommon French (frequency #69,125 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,125
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instruction fournie par certains langages de programmation pour aller directement à un endroit donné du programme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goto · goto · French
goto · rank #69,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,125
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gracile
Nearest frequency peer: gracile (+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 « goto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glitter
glitter
30,880 corpus weight
- gnostiques
gnostiques
30,879 corpus weight
- goto
goto
30,876 corpus weight
- gracile
gracile
30,875 corpus weight
- grammatical…
grammaticalement
30,874 corpus weight
- grassi
grassi
30,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡo.tu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goto is uncommon French at frequency #69,125 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡo.tu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instruction fournie par certains langages de programmation pour aller directement à un endroit donné du programme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for goto, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is goto, spelled G-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Instruction fournie par certains langages de programmation pour aller directement à un endroit donné du programme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Java, il n’existe pas la célèbre instruction goto, tout simplement parce qu’elle apporte une complexité à la lecture des programmes et que bien souvent, on peut se passer de cette instruction en écrivant du code plus propre. De plus, en C et C++, le goto est généralement utilisé pour sortir de boucles imbriquées.
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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