gunman
\ˈɡʌn.mən\
The verdict
“gunman” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un pistolero ; une personne, très souvent homme hors-la-loi, armée d’un pistolet ou de toute autre arme portable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gunman · gunman · French
gunman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gunman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡʌn.mən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gunman is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡʌn.mən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un pistolero ; une personne, très souvent homme hors-la-loi, armée d’un pistolet ou de toute autre arme portable.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gunman in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gunman, spelled G-U-N-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Un pistolero ; une personne, très souvent homme hors-la-loi, armée d’un pistolet ou de toute autre arme portable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gunman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” on Wednesday night.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.