gouleyant
\ɡu.lɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“gouleyant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un vin (ou d’une eau-de-vie, d’un cidre, d’une bière) frais, agréable à boire, léger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouleyant · gouleyant · French
gouleyant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouleyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡu.lɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gouleyant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡu.lɛ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un vin (ou d’une eau-de-vie, d’un cidre, d’une bière) frais, agréable à boire, léger.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gouleyant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gouleyant, spelled G-O-U-L-E-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un vin (ou d’une eau-de-vie, d’un cidre, d’une bière) frais, agréable à boire, léger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gouleyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cidre gaillard, moqueur, suave, gouleyant, le cidre de la complainte et de la cantilène, le cidre — pas bu — des vivants, et des morts qui s’esquivent des enclos paroissiaux afin de venir licher dans les caves et les secrets celliers.
Et son préféré, le pineau d’Aunis, une variété de raisins cultivés dans la vallée de la Loire, notamment pour les coteaux-du-vendômois, capable de créer « des vins dynamiques, qui dansent dans le verre ». Autrement dit, des raisins qui donnent des vins légers en alcool comme en structure, peu tanniques. Autrefois, on utilisait le terme « gouleyant ».
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.