goulette
\ɡu.lɛt\
The verdict
“goulette” is uncommon French (frequency #90,778 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,778
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit canal de pierre ou de marbre, qui a une pente douce, et qui est interrompu de distance en distance par de petits bassins, pour le jeu des eaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goulette · goulette · French
goulette · rank #90,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,778
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gongs
Nearest frequency peer: gongs (-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 « goulette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- globalisée
globalisée
9,226 corpus weight
- golo
golo
9,225 corpus weight
- gongs
gongs
9,224 corpus weight
- goulette
goulette
9,223 corpus weight
- Goyer
Goyer
9,222 corpus weight
- grandiloque…
grandiloquence
9,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goulette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goulette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goulette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goulette is uncommon French at frequency #90,778 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡu.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit canal de pierre ou de marbre, qui a une pente douce, et qui est interrompu de distance en distance par de petits bassins, pour le jeu des eaux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for goulette in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is goulette, spelled G-O-U-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit canal de pierre ou de marbre, qui a une pente douce, et qui est interrompu de distance en distance par de petits bassins, pour le jeu des eaux.
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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