goulard

noun

The verdict

“goulard” is uncommon French (frequency #55,311 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,311
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nasse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-goulard · goulard · French

goulard · rank #55,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,311
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH goule

Nearest frequency peer: goule (+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 « goulard »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goulard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for goulard
PropertyValue
Headwordgoulard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#55,311
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « goulard » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.goulardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « goule » (#55,312), « glaciation » (#55,309), « goy » (#55,313). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « goulard » est au #55,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

goulard is uncommon French at frequency #55,311 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nasse.".

Zero misspellings are on record for goulard in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 goulard, spelled G-O-U-L-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nasse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how goulard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a des goulards à deux ou quatre gueules.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "goulard"?
"goulard" is spelled G-O-U-L-A-R-D.
What does "goulard" mean?
As a noun, "goulard" means: Nasse.
What language does "goulard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "goulard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list