gourmandises
\ɡuʁ.mɑ̃.diz\
The verdict
“gourmandises” is uncommon French (frequency #60,831 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,831
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gourmandise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gourmandises · gourmandises · French
gourmandises · rank #60,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,831
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goro
Nearest frequency peer: goro (-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 « gourmandises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Goetz
Goetz
39,173 corpus weight
- gombo
gombo
39,172 corpus weight
- goro
goro
39,171 corpus weight
- gourmandises
gourmandises
39,170 corpus weight
- goûteux
goûteux
39,169 corpus weight
- granola
granola
39,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gourmandises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourmandises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃.diz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gourmandises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gourmandises is uncommon French at frequency #60,831 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃.diz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gourmandise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gourmandises, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gourmandises, spelled G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gourmandise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gourmandises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je veux donner du plaisir aux gens, et rien de tel que des gourmandises !
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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