goutte
\ɡut\
The verdict
“goutte” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,398 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très petite quantité d’un liquide qui se détache avec une forme sphérique.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goutte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡut\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goutte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for goutte is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡut\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,398 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for goutte, with forms such as "ggoutte", "gotute", and "goute". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grotte", "gratte", "gouttes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is goutte, spelled G-O-U-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Très petite quantité d’un liquide qui se détache avec une forme sphérique.
- 2Très petite quantité d’un liquide.
- 3Eau-de-vie.
- 4Quantité insignifiante.
- 5Mesure de certaines liqueurs qui s’emploient à très petite dose.
- 6Certains remèdes liquides qui ne s’administrent ordinairement qu’à très petites doses, à cause de leur énergie.
- 7Petite partie tirée d’une fonte d’or ou d’argent qu’on remet à l’essayeur pour avoir le rapport du titre.
- 8Quantité de verre en fusion qui sert de matière à élaborer un objet.
- 9Petits ornements de forme conique placés dans le plafond de l’ordre dorique ou sous les triglyphes.
- 10Affection caractérisée par des troubles articulaires, due à l’accumulation de l’acide urique dans l’organisme (hyperuricémie).
- 11Ruisselet, tout petit ruisseau.
- 12Meuble dans la forme d'une goutte, hémisphérique vers le bas et pointue vers le haut.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggoutte,gotute,goute,goutet,guotte,ogutte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goutte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “goutte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-O-U-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡut\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “grotte” - see the side-by-side comparison. goutte vs grotte
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.