gasser
\ɡa.se\
The verdict
“gasser” is uncommon French (frequency #97,988 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,988
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agiter (par exemple de l’eau dans un récipient pour le nettoyer).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gasser · gasser · French
gasser · rank #97,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,988
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gamète
Nearest frequency peer: gamète (-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 « gasser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gallego
gallego
2,016 corpus weight
- gamberger
gamberger
2,015 corpus weight
- gamète
gamète
2,014 corpus weight
- gasser
gasser
2,013 corpus weight
- gauge
gauge
2,012 corpus weight
- geckos
geckos
2,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gasser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡa.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gasser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gasser is uncommon French at frequency #97,988 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agiter (par exemple de l’eau dans un récipient pour le nettoyer).".
No misspelling variants are generated for gasser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gasser, spelled G-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Agiter (par exemple de l’eau dans un récipient pour le nettoyer).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On aurait pu en mettre dix pareilles à elle dans un sac, bien gasser le sac, tirer à l’hasard, et on était sûr de sortir une méchante gale, chipie, cancorne, avare, méchante — les sept péchés capitaux, quoi, et laide par-dessus le marché comme un pou à la renverse.
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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