goulûment
\ɡu.ly.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“goulûment” is uncommon French (frequency #82,992 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,992
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D’une manière goulue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goulument · goulûment · French
goulûment · rank #82,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 194,371
- PHOTO-FINISH gob
Nearest frequency peer: gob (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “goulûment”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- glaber
glaber
17,012 corpus weight
- glyphes
glyphes
17,011 corpus weight
- gob
gob
17,010 corpus weight
- goulûment
goulûment
17,009 corpus weight
- gourdins
gourdins
17,008 corpus weight
- goûtera
goûtera
17,007 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “goulûment” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goulûment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɡu.ly.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goulûment” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
goulûment is uncommon French at frequency #82,992 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɡu.ly.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière goulue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for goulûment in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 goulûment, spelled G-O-U-L-Û-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière goulue.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "goulûment", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.