goût
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,293
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
goût is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui des cinq sens par lequel on discerne les saveurs. Pronounced \ɡu\. It ranks #1,293 in French word frequency. Often confused with GT and guy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goût |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for goût is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡu\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,293 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for goût, with forms such as "ggoût", "gotû", and "gout". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GT", "guy", "gun", and more, 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 goût, spelled G-O-Û-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui des cinq sens par lequel on discerne les saveurs.
- 2Saveur.
- 3Odeur.
- 4Appétence des aliments, plaisir qu’on trouve à boire et à manger.
- 5Faculté de sentir, de discerner les beautés et les défauts qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages d’esprit, dans les productions des arts.
- 6Sentiment agréable ou avantageux qu’on a de quelque chose.
- 7Attrait qui porte vers certaines choses et du plaisir qu’on y trouve.
- 8Inclination qu’on a pour certaines personnes.
- 9Manière dont une chose est faite, caractère particulier de quelque ouvrage.
- 10Manière propre à un artiste, de la manière d’une école, et du caractère général d’un siècle.
- 11Bon goût ; agrément ; grâce ; élégance.
- 12Propriété ; caractéristique.
- 13Se dit de la manière la plus élégante d’interpréter une œuvre musicale, notamment dans les sections d’improvisation comme les cadences.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggoût,gotû,gout,goûtt,gûot,ogût
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for goût
Misspelling Variants of "goût"
Frequency rank: #1,293 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: