Guillaud
The verdict
“Guillaud” is uncommon French (frequency #88,690 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,690
- 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-guillaud · Guillaud · French
Guillaud · rank #88,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guigui
Nearest frequency peer: guigui (-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 « Guillaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guidez
guidez
11,313 corpus weight
- guigui
guigui
11,312 corpus weight
- Guillaud
Guillaud
11,311 corpus weight
- guérissait
guérissait
11,310 corpus weight
- gélatineux
gélatineux
11,309 corpus weight
- génoises
génoises
11,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guillaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guillaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guillaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guillaud is uncommon French at frequency #88,690 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Guillaud in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Guillaud, spelled G-U-I-L-L-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guillaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour autant, Mathias Guillaud nie avoir tenté de surfer sur une tendance avec District noir.
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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