gourdin
\ɡuʁ.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“gourdin” is uncommon French (frequency #51,501 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,501
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros bâton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gourdin · gourdin · French
gourdin · rank #51,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gones
Nearest frequency peer: gones (-2 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 « gourdin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goals
goals
48,504 corpus weight
- gobelin
gobelin
48,503 corpus weight
- gones
gones
48,502 corpus weight
- gourdin
gourdin
48,500 corpus weight
- grazia
grazia
48,498 corpus weight
- Guadalajara
Guadalajara
48,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gourdin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourdin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gourdin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gourdin is uncommon French at frequency #51,501 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡuʁ.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gourdin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gourdin, spelled G-O-U-R-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Gros bâton.
- 2Sexe de l’homme, pénis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gourdin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; l’armée permanente de l’Islande se réduit à deux policemen, dont les gourdins suffisent à maintenir l’ordre le plus parfait sur toute l’étendue du territoire.
Simon Cohen, se conformant en ceci à l’usage du pays qui interdit le port des armes à ses coreligionnaires marocains, est inerme; les chameliers ont des gourdins et de mauvais poignards, […].
This word in other languages
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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