gari
\ɡa.ʁi\
The verdict
“gari” is uncommon French (frequency #87,669 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,669
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne parfois affectueusement une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gari · gari · French
gari · rank #87,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,669
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garantissons
Nearest frequency peer: garantissons (-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 « gari »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garantissez
garantissez
12,334 corpus weight
- garantissons
garantissons
12,333 corpus weight
- gari
gari
12,332 corpus weight
- garnements
garnements
12,331 corpus weight
- gastrite
gastrite
12,330 corpus weight
- Gaylord
Gaylord
12,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gari » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gari » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gari is uncommon French at frequency #87,669 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gari has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gari, spelled G-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Désigne parfois affectueusement une personne.
- 2Autre nom donné au cochonnet dans le jeu de pétanque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où vas-tu, gari ?
Comme tous les jeux , la pétanque possède son propre vocabulaire . …. Cochonnet : Petite sphère de bois ... On l'appelle aussi le but , le petit , le leu , le peintre , le ministre , lou pitchoun , le bouchon , le gari.
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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