gourbiville
\ɡuʁ.bi.vil\
The verdict
“gourbiville” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agglomération d’habitations sommaires et insalubres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gourbiville · gourbiville · French
gourbiville · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | gourbiville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.bi.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gourbiville is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡuʁ.bi.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agglomération d’habitations sommaires et insalubres.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gourbiville in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gourbiville, spelled G-O-U-R-B-I-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Agglomération d’habitations sommaires et insalubres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gourbiville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes, l’apparence reste celle d’un gourbiville mais, avec le temps, les baraques ont été aménagées et ont reçu quelques éléments de confort comme l’électricité, d’autant que la population, dont le taux d’autochtonie est curieusement le plus fort d’Annaba, a réussi à trouver un emploi et donc à s’intégrer à l’économie urbaine.
Les premiers "gourbivilles" tunisois sont apparus entre les deux guerres suite à l’extension de l’exploitation agricole coloniale et à la destructuration qu’elle a engendrée dans les campagnes touchées par cette extension.
Synonyms
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.