Göttingen
\ɡøtɪŋœn\
The verdict
“Göttingen” is uncommon French (frequency #77,578 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,578
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gottingen · Göttingen · French
Göttingen · rank #77,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH génialissime
Nearest frequency peer: génialissime (-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 « Göttingen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grimacer
grimacer
22,429 corpus weight
- Gustin
Gustin
22,425 corpus weight
- génialissime
génialissime
22,424 corpus weight
- Göttingen
Göttingen
22,423 corpus weight
- habibi
habibi
22,422 corpus weight
- handsome
handsome
22,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Göttingen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Göttingen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡøtɪŋœn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Göttingen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Göttingen is uncommon French at frequency #77,578 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡøtɪŋœn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.".
Göttingen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Göttingen, spelled G-Ö-T-T-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Göttingen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean de Müller est remplacé par le baron Justus Christoph Leist, professeur de droit à Göttingen, membre du Conseil d'État, et l’un des traducteurs du Code Napoléon.
[…], et je me rendis compte que même à Göttingen il pleuvait parfois, les gens pouvaient être maussades, la vie quotidienne ne consistait pas à déguster du Baumkuchen chez Cron & Lanz.
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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