Guam
\ɡwam\
The verdict
“Guam” is uncommon French (frequency #52,091 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,091
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la mer des Philippines, la plus grande de Micronésie et la plus méridionale de l’archipel des Mariannes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guam · Guam · French
Guam · rank #52,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,091
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grillet
Nearest frequency peer: grillet (-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 « Guam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grandissait
grandissait
47,914 corpus weight
- gravitation…
gravitationnelles
47,913 corpus weight
- gri
gri
47,912 corpus weight
- grillet
grillet
47,911 corpus weight
- Guam
Guam
47,910 corpus weight
- Guangzhou
Guangzhou
47,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡwam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guam is uncommon French at frequency #52,091 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡwam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Guam, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Guam, spelled G-U-A-M.
Definition
- 1Île de la mer des Philippines, la plus grande de Micronésie et la plus méridionale de l’archipel des Mariannes.
- 2Territoire organisé non incorporé des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal GU), occupant l’île (nom officiel Territoire de Guam). Il est bordé par le Commonwealth des îles Mariannes du Nord au nord et les États fédérés de Micronésie au sud. Sa capitale est Hagåtña (Agaña).
This word in other languages
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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