Gough
The verdict
“Gough” is uncommon French (frequency #79,353 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,353
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gough · Gough · French
Gough · rank #79,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,353
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goujons
Nearest frequency peer: goujons (+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 « Gough »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Glaris
Glaris
20,652 corpus weight
- Gough
Gough
20,648 corpus weight
- goujons
goujons
20,647 corpus weight
- Goussainvil…
Goussainville
20,646 corpus weight
- goûteuse
goûteuse
20,645 corpus weight
- Gracques
Gracques
20,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gough » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gough |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gough » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gough is uncommon French at frequency #79,353 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gough in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Gough, spelled G-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gough appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de trente ans après avoir été approché pour réaliser le film en 1991, le cinéaste s’est enfin occupé de ce monde si spécial en produisant et réalisant en partie Mercredi, série d’Alfred Gough et Miles Millar, lancée ce mercredi sur Netflix.
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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