gourmand
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,894
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
gourmand is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui mange avec avidité et parfois avec excès. Pronounced \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\. Often confused with gourmands and gourmande.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourmand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gourmand is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,894 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for gourmand, with forms such as "ggourmand", "gorumand", and "goumrand". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gourmands", "gourmande", "gourmandes", 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 gourmand, spelled G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui mange avec avidité et parfois avec excès.
- 2Qui aime faire bonne chère. Qui recherche le plaisir de manger des mets succulents, des sucreries, des friandises. (En cette acception il se rapproche du sens de gourmet sans toutefois se confondre avec lui)
- 3Avide de satisfactions sensuelles ou d'avantages quelconques.
- 4Se dit des branches d’un arbre fruitier, d’un arbuste ou d’une plante qui poussent avec trop de vigueur et qui absorbent la nourriture des autres branches.
- 5Nom vulgaire des stolons.
- 6Qui est apprécié des gourmands ou des gourmets.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggourmand,gorumand,goumrand,gouramnd,gourmadn,gourmandd,gourmannd,gourmmand,gourmnad,gourrmand,guormand,ogurmand
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gourmand
Misspelling Variants of "gourmand"
Frequency rank: #16,894 in French
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