gouvernes
\ɡu.vɛʁn\
The verdict
“gouvernes” is uncommon French (frequency #93,825 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,825
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gouverne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouvernes · gouvernes · French
gouvernes · rank #93,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,825
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goupillon
Nearest frequency peer: goupillon (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gouvernes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gnon
gnon
6,181 corpus weight
- googler
googler
6,178 corpus weight
- goupillon
goupillon
6,177 corpus weight
- gouvernes
gouvernes
6,176 corpus weight
- Graaf
Graaf
6,174 corpus weight
- gramm
gramm
6,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gouvernes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouvernes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.vɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gouvernes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gouvernes is uncommon French at frequency #93,825 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡu.vɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gouverne.".
gouvernes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gouvernes, spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gouverne.
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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