Gwendoline
\ɡwɛn.dɔ.lin\
The verdict
“Gwendoline” is uncommon French (frequency #60,841 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,841
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gwendoline · Gwendoline · French
Gwendoline · rank #60,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,841
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gustative
Nearest frequency peer: gustative (-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 « Gwendoline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grelots
grelots
39,164 corpus weight
- grillade
grillade
39,163 corpus weight
- gustative
gustative
39,161 corpus weight
- Gwendoline
Gwendoline
39,160 corpus weight
- gynécologiq…
gynécologique
39,159 corpus weight
- gâchées
gâchées
39,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gwendoline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gwendoline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡwɛn.dɔ.lin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gwendoline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gwendoline is uncommon French at frequency #60,841 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡwɛn.dɔ.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Gwendoline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gwendoline, spelled G-W-E-N-D-O-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gwendoline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lèvres de Gwendoline tremblaient.
C’est le cas de Gwendoline Matos, également membre de l’équipe de France, mais de goalball (un mix de bowling et de handball qui n’a pas son équivalent chez les valides).
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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