gâterie
\ɡɑt.ʁi\
The verdict
“gâterie” is uncommon French (frequency #68,326 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,326
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prévenance, présent qui dépassent l’attente de celui qui en est l’objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaterie · gâterie · French
gâterie · rank #68,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,326
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gâtées
Nearest frequency peer: gâtées (+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 « gâterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- groen
groen
31,678 corpus weight
- Guermantes
Guermantes
31,677 corpus weight
- gâterie
gâterie
31,675 corpus weight
- gâtées
gâtées
31,674 corpus weight
- géodésiques
géodésiques
31,673 corpus weight
- gênez
gênez
31,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gâterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gâterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑt.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gâterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gâterie is uncommon French at frequency #68,326 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑt.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
gâterie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gâterie, spelled G-Â-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prévenance, présent qui dépassent l’attente de celui qui en est l’objet.
- 2Friandise.
- 3Fellation, cunnilingus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gâterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Merci pour vos gâteries.
Bientôt ces visites amicales devinrent une habitude et même une gâterie qui n’était pas sans danger.
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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