Guermantes
\ɡɛʁ.mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“Guermantes” is uncommon French (frequency #68,324 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,324
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guermantes · Guermantes · French
Guermantes · rank #68,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,324
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH groen
Nearest frequency peer: groen (-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 « Guermantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gouvernait
gouvernait
31,681 corpus weight
- gratifier
gratifier
31,680 corpus weight
- groen
groen
31,678 corpus weight
- Guermantes
Guermantes
31,677 corpus weight
- gâterie
gâterie
31,675 corpus weight
- gâtées
gâtées
31,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guermantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guermantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ.mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guermantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guermantes is uncommon French at frequency #68,324 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɛʁ.mɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Guermantes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Guermantes, spelled G-U-E-R-M-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
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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