goupillon

/\ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\/ noun

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\.

Key facts for goupillon
PropertyValue
Headwordgoupillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#93,824
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Symbole de l'Église. → voir le sabre et le goupillon
  3. 3
    Brosse qui sert à nettoyer les bouteilles.
  4. 4
    Bâton muni de poils dont les chapeliers se servent pour asperger la feutrière et le bassin.
  5. 5
    Grosse brosse utilisée par les cordiers pour étaler la colle.
  6. 6
    Synonyme de callistemon.
  7. 7
    Arme médiévale proche du fléau d'armes, avec plusieurs chaînes.
  8. 8
    Arme qu’on brandit.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,824 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "goupillon"?
"goupillon" is spelled G-O-U-P-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\.
What does "goupillon" mean?
As a noun, "goupillon" 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 ...
How do you pronounce "goupillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "goupillon" is \ɡu.pi.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.