gai comme un pinson
\ɡe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɛ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“gai comme un pinson” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gai-comme-un-pinson · gai comme un pinson · French
gai comme un pinson · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gai comme un pinson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɛ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gai comme un pinson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gai comme un pinson is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɛ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gai comme un pinson, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gai comme un pinson, spelled G-A-I- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-I-N-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Plein de vivacité, de bonne humeur, joyeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gai comme un pinson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt gai comme un pinson, et tantôt sérieux comme un pape.
Un jour, en novembre 1831, au sein d’une des plus belles vallées de la Touraine, où j’avais été pour me guérir de mon idée fixe, et par une ravissante soirée où notre ciel avait la pureté des ciels italiens, je revenais, gai comme un pinson, du petit castel de Méré, jadis possédé par Tristan, lorsque je fus arrêté soudain, à la hauteur du vieux château de…
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.