goutte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,398
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
goutte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Très petite quantité d’un liquide qui se détache avec une forme sphérique. Pronounced \ɡut\. It ranks #6,398 in French word frequency. Often confused with grotte and gratte.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for goutte is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for goutte, with forms such as "ggoutte", "gotute", and "goute". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grotte", "gratte", "gouttes", 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 goutte, spelled G-O-U-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for goutte
Misspelling Variants of "goutte"
Frequency rank: #6,398 in French
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