Guilbault
\ɡil.bo\
The verdict
“Guilbault” is uncommon French (frequency #71,564 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,564
- 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-guilbault · Guilbault · French
Guilbault · rank #71,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,564
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gueuse
Nearest frequency peer: gueuse (-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 « Guilbault »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grou
grou
28,441 corpus weight
- guelfes
guelfes
28,440 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
28,439 corpus weight
- gueuse
gueuse
28,438 corpus weight
- Guilbault
Guilbault
28,437 corpus weight
- généalogist…
généalogistes
28,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guilbault » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guilbault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡil.bo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guilbault » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guilbault is uncommon French at frequency #71,564 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡil.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Guilbault in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 Guilbault, spelled G-U-I-L-B-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guilbault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En réaction, la vice-première ministre Geneviève Guilbault a plutôt fait appel à l’« unité des élus ».
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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