gai comme pinson
The verdict
“gai comme pinson” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gai comme pinson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡe kɔm pɛ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gai comme pinson” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gai comme pinson is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡe kɔm pɛ̃.sɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gai comme pinson in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gai comme pinson, spelled G-A-I- -C-O-M-M-E- -P-I-N-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.
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Using “gai comme pinson”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-I- -C-O-M-M-E- -P-I-N-S-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡe kɔm pɛ̃.sɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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