gargariser
\ɡaʁ.ɡa.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“gargariser” is uncommon French (frequency #91,728 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,728
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laver la gorge avec de l’eau ou avec quelque autre liquide, en le faisant entrer le plus avant qu’il se peut et en le repoussant à diverses reprises pour s’empêcher de l’avaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gargariser · gargariser · French
gargariser · rank #91,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,728
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Garaud
Nearest frequency peer: Garaud (-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 « gargariser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galvanise
galvanise
8,276 corpus weight
- gamification
gamification
8,275 corpus weight
- Garaud
Garaud
8,274 corpus weight
- gargariser
gargariser
8,273 corpus weight
- garnit
garnit
8,272 corpus weight
- geno
geno
8,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gargariser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gargariser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ɡa.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gargariser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gargariser is uncommon French at frequency #91,728 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡaʁ.ɡa.ʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gargariser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gargariser, spelled G-A-R-G-A-R-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Laver la gorge avec de l’eau ou avec quelque autre liquide, en le faisant entrer le plus avant qu’il se peut et en le repoussant à diverses reprises pour s’empêcher de l’avaler.
- 2Savourer ses propres propos avec vanité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gargariser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se gargariser la gorge. Le médecin m’ordonne de me gargariser.
Quand Mounet-Sully jouait Œdipe-Roi, avant le spectacle il se gargarisait les cordes vocales avec du bourgogne.
This word in other languages
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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