Guilvinec
\ɡil.vi.nɛk\
The verdict
“Guilvinec” is uncommon French (frequency #93,840 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,840
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guilvinec · Guilvinec · French
Guilvinec · rank #93,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,840
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guinguettes
Nearest frequency peer: guinguettes (+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 « Guilvinec »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grund
Grund
6,164 corpus weight
- grésil
grésil
6,163 corpus weight
- Guilvinec
Guilvinec
6,161 corpus weight
- guinguettes
guinguettes
6,160 corpus weight
- Guirado
Guirado
6,159 corpus weight
- Guynemer
Guynemer
6,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guilvinec » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guilvinec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡil.vi.nɛk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guilvinec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guilvinec is uncommon French at frequency #93,840 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡil.vi.nɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Guilvinec, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Guilvinec, spelled G-U-I-L-V-I-N-E-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guilvinec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette ville, s’il faut l’en croire, était immense et somptueuse ; il vous fera voir, au large, entre Guilvinec et Penmarc’h, à quinze ou vingt pieds sous l’eau, des pierres druidiques que l’on aperçoit dans les basses marées, et qui n’étaient autre chose que les autels de la cité engloutie.
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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