guignard
\ɡi.ɲaʁ\
The verdict
“guignard” is uncommon French (frequency #67,567 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,567
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de pluvier guignard (oiseau).
Corpus desk
Index FR-guignard · guignard · French
guignard · rank #67,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,567
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH généticiens
Nearest frequency peer: généticiens (+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 « guignard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Groningue
Groningue
32,438 corpus weight
- grégorienne
grégorienne
32,436 corpus weight
- guignard
guignard
32,434 corpus weight
- généticiens
généticiens
32,433 corpus weight
- haase
haase
32,432 corpus weight
- hallucinogè…
hallucinogène
32,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guignard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guignard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.ɲaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guignard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guignard is uncommon French at frequency #67,567 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡi.ɲaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de pluvier guignard (oiseau).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for guignard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 guignard, spelled G-U-I-G-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Variante de pluvier guignard (oiseau).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guignard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le guignard est un oiseau de passage.
Le volatile accroupi sur l’édifice est un guignard, oiseau migrateur qui traversait alors en troupes nombreuses la plaine de Beauce à l’automne et dont la chair entrait dans la composition du fameux pâté de Chartres : Charles Monselet l’a précisé dans une de ses chroniques gastronomiques.
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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