Gounod
\ɡu.no\
The verdict
“Gounod” is uncommon French (frequency #55,998 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,998
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gounod · Gounod · French
Gounod · rank #55,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,998
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glouton
Nearest frequency peer: glouton (-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 « Gounod »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Giuliani
Giuliani
44,006 corpus weight
- globalisé
globalisé
44,005 corpus weight
- glouton
glouton
44,004 corpus weight
- Gounod
Gounod
44,003 corpus weight
- goupille
goupille
44,002 corpus weight
- grease
grease
44,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gounod » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gounod |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gounod » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gounod is uncommon French at frequency #55,998 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡu.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Gounod doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gounod, spelled G-O-U-N-O-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gounod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, Jean-Mi cadre le projo sur les planches raboutées qui font office de scène, la diva se désétreinte, le piano baisse le son, l’apparition entre dans la lumière et attaque l’Ave Maria de Gounod.
Les élèves de 4ᵉ et de 3ᵉ du collège Gounod ont assisté à une séance de planétarium à l’intérieur d’une structure gonflable amenée par Gilles Rémy, enseignant à l’Université de Cergy.
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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