guttural
\ɡy.ty.ʁal\
The verdict
“guttural” is uncommon French (frequency #94,862 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,862
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au gosier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guttural · guttural · French
guttural · rank #94,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,862
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guinot
Nearest frequency peer: guinot (-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 « guttural »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grignotant
grignotant
5,147 corpus weight
- gueulante
gueulante
5,142 corpus weight
- guindée
guindée
5,141 corpus weight
- guinot
guinot
5,140 corpus weight
- guttural
guttural
5,139 corpus weight
- Hamer
Hamer
5,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guttural » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guttural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡy.ty.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guttural » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guttural is uncommon French at frequency #94,862 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡy.ty.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guttural, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is guttural, spelled G-U-T-T-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au gosier.
- 2Qui vient du gosier ; qui se prononce du fond du gosier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guttural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet os pair, insymétrique, aplati d’un côté à l’autre, et recourbé en arc d’avant en arrière, occupe la partie postérieure des fosses nasales, en circonscrit l’ouverture postérieure ou gutturale, et termine la voute osseuse du palais.
L’empyème des poches gutturales signifie la présence de pus dans les poches gutturales. Cela est dû à la présence de bactéries dans les poches gutturales et c’est d’ailleurs souvent la conséquence d’une gourme (infection due à streptococcus equi var equi).
This word in other languages
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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