gast
The verdict
“gast” is uncommon French (frequency #69,865 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,865
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juron équivalant à putain, qui traduit la colère, la joie, la peur, l’indignation ou l’étonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gast · gast · French
gast · rank #69,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,865
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaubert
Nearest frequency peer: Gaubert (+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 « gast »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fêtant
fêtant
30,141 corpus weight
- gast
gast
30,136 corpus weight
- Gaubert
Gaubert
30,135 corpus weight
- generalitat
generalitat
30,134 corpus weight
- Genesio
Genesio
30,133 corpus weight
- gerd
gerd
30,131 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gast » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gast » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gast is uncommon French at frequency #69,865 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Juron équivalant à putain, qui traduit la colère, la joie, la peur, l’indignation ou l’étonnement.".
gast has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gast, spelled G-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1Juron équivalant à putain, qui traduit la colère, la joie, la peur, l’indignation ou l’étonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gast, avec la boucaille il y a intérêt à dropper. Tu pars de la boulangerie avec du pain, et tu arrives ici avec de la soupe !
Gast! Cela vous faisait une grosse boule de feu!
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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