gouverneur
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,824
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
gouverneur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est chargé de la direction d’une subdivision administrative de premier niveau, comme une province ou un État, d’une colonie ou d’un grand établissement financier. Pronounced \ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\. It ranks #2,824 in French word frequency. Often confused with gouverneurs and gouverne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouverneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gouverneur is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,824 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for gouverneur, with forms such as "ggouverneur", "gouevrneur", and "gouvenreur". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gouverneurs", "gouverne", "gouverner", 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 gouverneur, spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est chargé de la direction d’une subdivision administrative de premier niveau, comme une province ou un État, d’une colonie ou d’un grand établissement financier.
- 2Celui qui gouverne une province, une ville, une place forte.
- 3Celui qui est commis à l’éducation et à l’instruction d’un jeune prince, d’un jeune homme de grande famille. Dans ce sens, il a pour féminin gouvernante
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggouverneur,gouevrneur,gouvenreur,gouverenur,gouverneru,gouverneurr,gouvernneur,gouvernuer,gouverrneur,gouvreneur,gouvverneur,govuerneur,guoverneur,oguverneur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gouverneur
Misspelling Variants of "gouverneur"
Frequency rank: #2,824 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: