goule
\ɡul\
The verdict
“goule” is uncommon French (frequency #55,312 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,312
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génie dévorant, d’après les superstitions du Levant, les corps morts dans les cimetières, résurrectionniste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goule · goule · French
goule · rank #55,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,312
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goulard
Nearest frequency peer: goulard (-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 « goule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Gramsci
Gramsci
44,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡul\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goule is uncommon French at frequency #55,312 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
goule doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is goule, spelled G-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Génie dévorant, d’après les superstitions du Levant, les corps morts dans les cimetières, résurrectionniste.
- 2Un des multiples monstres de rivières qu’on pensait sévir au Moyen Âge.
- 3Vampire.
- 4Serviteur d’un vampire.
- 5Femme criminelle et hystérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux déités folles des vieux empires, Nous opposons des diables peu tentants, Des loups-garous, des goules, des vampires.
Goules, dont la lèvre Jamais ne se sèvre Du sang noir des morts !
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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