gouvernatrice
\ɡu.vɛʁ.na.tʁis\
The verdict
“gouvernatrice” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme chargée de la direction d’une subdivision administrative de premier niveau, comme une province ou un État, une colonie ou un grand établissement financier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouvernatrice · gouvernatrice · French
gouvernatrice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouvernatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.vɛʁ.na.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gouvernatrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gouvernatrice is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡu.vɛʁ.na.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme chargée de la direction d’une subdivision administrative de premier niveau, comme une province ou un État, une colonie ou un grand établissement financier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gouvernatrice, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gouvernatrice, spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Femme chargée de la direction d’une subdivision administrative de premier niveau, comme une province ou un État, une colonie ou un grand établissement financier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gouvernatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pape a en effet adressé un message à la gouvernatrice générale d’Australie, Quentin Bryce, pour les morts dans l’État de Victoria.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.