Guylaine
\ɡi.lɛn\
The verdict
“Guylaine” is uncommon French (frequency #56,635 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,635
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guylaine · Guylaine · French
Guylaine · rank #56,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,635
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gujarat
Nearest frequency peer: Gujarat (-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 « Guylaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guedj
Guedj
43,369 corpus weight
- Gueye
Gueye
43,368 corpus weight
- Gujarat
Gujarat
43,367 corpus weight
- Guylaine
Guylaine
43,366 corpus weight
- Guénolé
Guénolé
43,365 corpus weight
- Gwyneth
Gwyneth
43,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guylaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guylaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guylaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guylaine is uncommon French at frequency #56,635 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡi.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Guylaine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Guylaine, spelled G-U-Y-L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
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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