gouvernail
French, noun/ɡu.vɛʁ.naj/
gouvernail is spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-A-I-L (10 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gouvernail is a French masculine noun meaning “rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dispositif mobile, fixé à l’arrière d’un navire, d’un bateau, d’un avion qui sert à lui faire prendre telle…”.
What does gouvernail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dispositif mobile, fixé à l’arrière d’un navire, d’un bateau, d’un avion qui sert à lui faire prendre telle ou telle direction, le faire aller du côté qu’on veut. 2. Personne pagayant à l'arrière d'un canot, chargé notamment de l'orientation de celui-ci. 3. Gouvernement d’un État ou d’une grande entreprise.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gouvernail
- gouvernails plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gouvernail?
- /ɡu.vɛʁ.naj/
- \ɡu.vɛʁ.naj\
- [ɡu.vɛʁ.naj]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gouvernail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gouvernail in French?
gouvernail appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).