CGL

\se.ʒe.ɛl\

/\se.ʒe.ɛl\/ noun

The verdict

“CGL” is uncommon French (frequency #99,981 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,981
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu ouvert au public dont la fonction est l’accueil, l’écoute, l’aide, l’information à propos des sujets homosexuels ou relatifs à l’identité de genre ou l’orientation sexuelle et affective et qui...

Corpus desk

Index FR-cgl · CGL · French

CGL · rank #99,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,981
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chaillou

Nearest frequency peer: chaillou (+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 « CGL »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CGL » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for CGL
PropertyValue
HeadwordCGL
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.ʒe.ɛl\
Letters3
Frequency rank#99,981
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « CGL » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.CGLtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « chaillou » (#99,982), « chambardement » (#99,983), « chansonnettes » (#99,985). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CGL » est au #99,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

CGL is uncommon French at frequency #99,981 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.ʒe.ɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu ouvert au public dont la fonction est l’accueil, l’écoute, l’aide, l’information à propos des sujets homosexuels ou relatifs à l’identité de genre ou l’orientation sexuelle et affective et qui...".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CGL, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is CGL, spelled C-G-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu ouvert au public dont la fonction est l’accueil, l’écoute, l’aide, l’information à propos des sujets homosexuels ou relatifs à l’identité de genre ou l’orientation sexuelle et affective et qui, plus largement, a aussi des dimensions communautaires, citoyennes et militantes.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CGL"?
"CGL" is spelled C-G-L. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ʒe.ɛl\.
What does "CGL" mean?
As a noun, "CGL" means: Lieu ouvert au public dont la fonction est l’accueil, l’écoute, l’aide, l’information à propos des sujets homosexuels ou relatifs à l’identité de genre ou l’orientation sexuelle et affective et qui...
How do you pronounce "CGL"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "CGL" is \se.ʒe.ɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "CGL" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CGL", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list