gathering
\ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ\
The verdict
“gathering” is uncommon French (frequency #79,343 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,343
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gathering · gathering · French
gathering · rank #79,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,343
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gegen
Nearest frequency peer: gegen (+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 « gathering »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gaffeur
gaffeur
20,662 corpus weight
- galactose
galactose
20,661 corpus weight
- Gance
Gance
20,660 corpus weight
- gathering
gathering
20,658 corpus weight
- gegen
gegen
20,657 corpus weight
- Germania
Germania
20,655 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gathering » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gathering |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gathering » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gathering is uncommon French at frequency #79,343 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
gathering has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gathering, spelled G-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Collection.
- 2Rassemblement.
- 3Réunion, rencontre, fête.
- 4Un cahier de feuilles in-folio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gathering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
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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