gousset
\ɡu.sɛ\
The verdict
“gousset” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,985 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,985
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite poche destinée à renfermer de l’argent, des bijoux, une montre, etc., et fixée à la ceinture du pantalon ou plus souvent au gilet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gousset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gousset” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gousset is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡu.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,985 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
gousset doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gousset, spelled G-O-U-S-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petite poche destinée à renfermer de l’argent, des bijoux, une montre, etc., et fixée à la ceinture du pantalon ou plus souvent au gilet.
- 2Petite console de menuiserie servant à soutenir des tablettes.
- 3Dans une structure métallique ou mécano-soudée, pièce mince (tôle) servant à rigidifier une liaison d'angle.
- 4Petite pièce triangulaire de toile ou de coton, que l’on met à la manche d’une chemise à l’endroit de l’aisselle.
- 5Petite poche située à l’entrejambe des sous-vêtements féminins.
- 6Odeur spéciale qui vient parfois du creux de l’aisselle.
- 7Ouverture ménagée dans la voûte d’un bateau pour y passer la tête du gouvernail.
- 8Pièce de bois munie de deux tourillons qui entrent dans les barrotins du second pont d’un navire.
- 9Pièce formée pour la partie supérieure par un triangle mouvant du chef, et qui rejoint un pal pour la partie inférieure. Similaire au pairle, si ce n’est que la partie supérieure est pleine.
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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Using “gousset”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-O-U-S-S-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡu.sɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.