gourmette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,041
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gourmette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui, en dégustant le vin, sait en déterminer la provenance, la date et les diverses caractéristiques. Pronounced \ɡuʁ.mɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourmette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gourmette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡuʁ.mɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,041 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gourmette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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, 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 gourmette, spelled G-O-U-R-M-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui, en dégustant le vin, sait en déterminer la provenance, la date et les diverses caractéristiques.
- 2Celle qui apporte dans les choses de la table une recherche de délicatesse et de raffinement.
- 3Petite chainette de fer qui tient à un des côtés du mors d’un cheval et qu’on accroche à l’autre côté en la faisant passer sous la ganache.
- 4Bracelet de chaîne à mailles plates et comportant souvent une plaquette gravée.
- 5Garde établie par les marchands pour surveiller la marchandise d’un navire avant et pendant son débarquement.
- 6Menotte.
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Frequency rank: #74,041 in French
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