gourde
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,747
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
gourde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante de la famille des cucurbitacées. Pronounced \ɡuʁd\. Often confused with guide and goûte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gourde is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡuʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,747 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gourde, with forms such as "ggourde", "gorude", and "goudre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "guide", "goûte", "goutte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 gourde, spelled G-O-U-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des cucurbitacées.
- 2Fruit de cette plante, qui peut être utilisé comme récipient une fois séché.
- 3Calebasse, courge séchée et vidée, dont les indigènes de certains pays, les pèlerins, etc., se servent pour porter de l’eau, du vin ou quelque autre boisson.
- 4Bouteille clissée ou protégée que les soldats, les voyageurs, les chasseurs, les écoliers, les cyclistes emportent avec eux.
- 5Bouteille en plastique, en aluminium, ou en un matériau incassable, souvent de forme aplatie, destinée à emporter avec soi un liquide alimentaire ou de l'eau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggourde,gorude,goudre,gourdde,goured,gourrde,guorde,ogurde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gourde
Misspelling Variants of "gourde"
Frequency rank: #26,747 in French
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