gouines
\ɡwin\
The verdict
“gouines” is uncommon French (frequency #81,200 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,200
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gouine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouines · gouines · French
gouines · rank #81,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,200
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gond
Nearest frequency peer: gond (-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 « gouines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Giulietta
Giulietta
18,804 corpus weight
- goblin
goblin
18,803 corpus weight
- gond
gond
18,802 corpus weight
- gouines
gouines
18,801 corpus weight
- gouvernera
gouvernera
18,799 corpus weight
- Gouvion
Gouvion
18,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gouines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡwin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gouines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gouines is uncommon French at frequency #81,200 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡwin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gouine.".
gouines has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gouines, spelled G-O-U-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gouine.
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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