gouffre
French, noun/ɡufʁ/
gouffre is spelled G-O-U-F-F-R-E (7 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gouffre is a French masculine noun meaning “pit or shaft cave, pothole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cavité souterraine naturelle, large et profonde”.
What does gouffre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepit or shaft cave, pothole
- 2
masculinechasm
- 3
masculinemoney pit, drain on finances
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cavité souterraine naturelle, large et profonde. 2. Une telle cavité qui s’ouvre à la surface du sol. 3. Ce qui donne une impression de vide abyssal, en parlant de certaines choses. 4. Chose qui cause des frais, des sacrifices, des pertes immenses.
noun: 1. Meuble représentant un tourbillon d’eau au centre des armoiries. Il est généralement représenté d’azur. Il est essentiellement utilisé en héraldique britannique. Il présente la particularité de sortir des bords du champ. D’ordinaire il est dextrogyre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gouffre
- gouffres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gouffre?
- /ɡufʁ/
- \ɡufʁ\
- [ɡufʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gouffre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gouffre in French?
gouffre appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).