gunner
\ˈɡʌn.ə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“gunner” is uncommon French (frequency #61,583 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,583
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gunner · gunner · French
gunner · rank #61,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,583
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guan
Nearest frequency peer: guan (-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 « gunner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- GRS
GRS
38,421 corpus weight
- grêlons
grêlons
38,420 corpus weight
- guan
guan
38,419 corpus weight
- gunner
gunner
38,418 corpus weight
- guérira
guérira
38,417 corpus weight
- hachées
hachées
38,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gunner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gunner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡʌn.ə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gunner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gunner is uncommon French at frequency #61,583 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡʌn.ə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gunner has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gunner, spelled G-U-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Artilleur.
- 2Canonnier.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).