gouffre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,788
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
gouffre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cavité souterraine naturelle, large et profonde. Pronounced \ɡufʁ\. Often confused with gaufre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouffre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡufʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gouffre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡufʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,788 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gouffre, with forms such as "ggouffre", "gofufre", and "gouffer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gaufre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gouffre, spelled G-O-U-F-F-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavité souterraine naturelle, large et profonde.
- 2Cavité souterraine naturelle, large et profonde.
- 3Ce qui donne une impression de vide abyssal, en parlant de certaines choses.
- 4Chose qui cause des frais, des sacrifices, des pertes immenses.
- 5Chose qui cause des frais, des sacrifices, des pertes immenses.
- 6Chose qui cause des frais, des sacrifices, des pertes immenses.
- 7Grande distance qui sépare les humains, les choses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggouffre,gofufre,gouffer,gouffrre,goufre,goufrfe,guoffre,oguffre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gouffre"
Frequency rank: #12,788 in French
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