goure
\ɡuʁ\
The verdict
“goure” is uncommon French (frequency #94,850 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,850
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drogue falsifiée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goure · goure · French
goure · rank #94,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,850
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goody
Nearest frequency peer: goody (-1 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 « goure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Goldmann
Goldmann
5,154 corpus weight
- gom
gom
5,153 corpus weight
- goody
goody
5,152 corpus weight
- goure
goure
5,151 corpus weight
- gouvernaient
gouvernaient
5,150 corpus weight
- gouvernorats
gouvernorats
5,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goure is uncommon French at frequency #94,850 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for goure, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is goure, spelled G-O-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Drogue falsifiée.
- 2Erreur.
- 3Gaffe, faux pas.
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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