gaies
\ɡe\
The verdict
“gaies” is uncommon French (frequency #53,367 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,367
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de gai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaies · gaies · French
gaies · rank #53,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,367
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gabelle
Nearest frequency peer: gabelle (-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 « gaies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fusionnant
fusionnant
46,637 corpus weight
- fédéré
fédéré
46,636 corpus weight
- gabelle
gabelle
46,635 corpus weight
- gaies
gaies
46,634 corpus weight
- Galicie
Galicie
46,633 corpus weight
- Gambardella
Gambardella
46,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaies is uncommon French at frequency #53,367 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de gai.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gaies in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaies, spelled G-A-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de gai.
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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