gusto
\ˈɡʌs.təʊ\
The verdict
“gusto” is uncommon French (frequency #69,886 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,886
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gusto · gusto · French
gusto · rank #69,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guterres
Nearest frequency peer: Guterres (+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 « gusto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guettant
guettant
30,119 corpus weight
- Guillain
Guillain
30,118 corpus weight
- guillemet
guillemet
30,117 corpus weight
- gusto
gusto
30,115 corpus weight
- Guterres
Guterres
30,114 corpus weight
- Halicarnasse
Halicarnasse
30,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gusto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gusto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡʌs.təʊ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gusto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gusto is uncommon French at frequency #69,886 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡʌs.təʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gusto, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gusto, spelled G-U-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Délice.
- 2Vigueur.
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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