goy
\ɡɔj\
The verdict
“goy” is uncommon French (frequency #55,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,313
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non juif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goy · goy · French
goy · rank #55,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,313
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goule
Nearest frequency peer: goule (-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 « goy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glaciation
glaciation
44,692 corpus weight
- goulard
goulard
44,690 corpus weight
- goule
goule
44,689 corpus weight
- goy
goy
44,688 corpus weight
- Gramsci
Gramsci
44,686 corpus weight
- grattent
grattent
44,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɔj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goy is uncommon French at frequency #55,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non juif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for goy, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 goy, spelled G-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Non juif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est fini, Laurent, c'est fini. Je ne serai pas le Messie. − Pourquoi? fis-je, la voix chargée de reproches sincères. Il [Justin Weill] secoua la tête : − J'aime une fille goye.
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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