gouine
\ɡwin\
The verdict
“gouine” is uncommon French (frequency #65,976 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,976
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coureuse ; femme de mauvaise vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouine · gouine · French
gouine · rank #65,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,976
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gott
Nearest frequency peer: Gott (-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 « gouine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Givet
Givet
34,029 corpus weight
- glycogène
glycogène
34,027 corpus weight
- Gott
Gott
34,026 corpus weight
- gouine
gouine
34,025 corpus weight
- grimaçant
grimaçant
34,023 corpus weight
- groseille
groseille
34,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gouine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡwin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gouine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gouine is uncommon French at frequency #65,976 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡwin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gouine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gouine, spelled G-O-U-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Coureuse ; femme de mauvaise vie.
- 2Lesbienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gouine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que la vieille Thémis ne soit plus qu’une gouine Baisant Mandrin dans l’antre où Mongis baragouine Ô nature profonde et calme, que t’importe !
– Hein ? il y a quelque femelle, là-dessous… Ah ! les sacrées gouines, on devrait leur tordre le cou à toutes !
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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