goulard
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
- gencive
gencive
44,694 corpus weight
- gimmick
gimmick
44,693 corpus weight
- glaciation
glaciation
44,692 corpus weight
- goulard
goulard
44,690 corpus weight
- goule
goule
44,689 corpus weight
- goy
goy
44,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goulard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goulard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goulard » en français
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
- 1Nasse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goulard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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