gambier
\ɡɑ̃.bje\
The verdict
“gambier” is uncommon French (frequency #82,059 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,059
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traverse de bois où le boucher suspend par les pattes les bêtes qu’il a tuées, et le chasseur son gibier. (Delboulle, Glossaire de la vallée d’Yères, page 154)
Corpus desk
Index FR-gambier · gambier · French
gambier · rank #82,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,059
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gana
Nearest frequency peer: gana (+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 « gambier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fustigent
fustigent
17,946 corpus weight
- gadoue
gadoue
17,944 corpus weight
- gambier
gambier
17,942 corpus weight
- gana
gana
17,941 corpus weight
- garot
garot
17,939 corpus weight
- gaspillez
gaspillez
17,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gambier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gambier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃.bje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gambier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gambier is uncommon French at frequency #82,059 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃.bje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gambier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gambier, spelled G-A-M-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traverse de bois où le boucher suspend par les pattes les bêtes qu’il a tuées, et le chasseur son gibier. (Delboulle, Glossaire de la vallée d’Yères, page 154)
- 2Outil utilisé autrefois pour la fabrication des miroirs, il s'agit d'une longue barre de métal destinée à mouvoir un autre outil.
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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