Goyer
\gwa.je\
The verdict
“Goyer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,779 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,779
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goyer · Goyer · French
Goyer · rank #90,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,779
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goulette
Nearest frequency peer: goulette (-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 « Goyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- golo
golo
9,225 corpus weight
- gongs
gongs
9,224 corpus weight
- goulette
goulette
9,223 corpus weight
- Goyer
Goyer
9,222 corpus weight
- grandiloque…
grandiloquence
9,221 corpus weight
- graça
graça
9,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Goyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \gwa.je\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Goyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Goyer is uncommon French at frequency #90,779 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \gwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Goyer has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Goyer, spelled G-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Goyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bon, on triche un peu, Blade n’est pas tout à fait un vampire : c’est un diurnambule, ou dhampir, créature hybride matinée d’humain, ce qui ne l’empêche pas d’être hargneux dans les trois films — signés Stephen Norrington, Guillermo del Toro et David S. Goyer — qui portent son nom.
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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