goupillon
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#93,824
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
goupillon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit bâton de bois ou de métal garni de poils rudes ou d’une boule percée de trous, qui sert à l’église pour prendre de l’eau bénite et pour la jeter sur les objets qu’on bénit, ou la présenter à ... Pronounced \ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goupillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for goupillon is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,824 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for goupillon in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 goupillon, spelled G-O-U-P-I-L-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit bâton de bois ou de métal garni de poils rudes ou d’une boule percée de trous, qui sert à l’église pour prendre de l’eau bénite et pour la jeter sur les objets qu’on bénit, ou la présenter à quelqu’un.
- 2Symbole de l'Église. → voir le sabre et le goupillon
- 3Brosse qui sert à nettoyer les bouteilles.
- 4Bâton muni de poils dont les chapeliers se servent pour asperger la feutrière et le bassin.
- 5Grosse brosse utilisée par les cordiers pour étaler la colle.
- 6Synonyme de callistemon.
- 7Arme médiévale proche du fléau d'armes, avec plusieurs chaînes.
- 8Arme qu’on brandit.
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Frequency rank: #93,824 in French
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