goulette

/\ɡu.lɛt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#90,778

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

goulette is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \ɡu.lɛt\.

Key facts for goulette
PropertyValue
Headwordgoulette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡu.lɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,778
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of goulette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for goulette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡu.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #90,778 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 misspelling variants are generated for goulette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is goulette, spelled G-O-U-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #90,778 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "goulette"?
"goulette" is spelled G-O-U-L-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡu.lɛt\.
What does "goulette" mean?
As a noun, "goulette" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "goulette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "goulette" is \ɡu.lɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "goulette" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.