gauler
\ɡo.le\
The verdict
“gauler” is uncommon French (frequency #64,473 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,473
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Battre un arbre avec une gaule pour en faire tomber le fruit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gauler · gauler · French
gauler · rank #64,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,473
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gatien
Nearest frequency peer: Gatien (-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 « gauler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garbage
garbage
35,531 corpus weight
- Garoua
Garoua
35,530 corpus weight
- Gatien
Gatien
35,529 corpus weight
- gauler
gauler
35,528 corpus weight
- gavroche
gavroche
35,527 corpus weight
- ginseng
ginseng
35,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gauler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gauler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡo.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gauler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gauler is uncommon French at frequency #64,473 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡo.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
gauler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gauler, spelled G-A-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Battre un arbre avec une gaule pour en faire tomber le fruit.
- 2Faire tomber, attraper les fruits avec cette technique.
- 3Faire tomber les fruits en utilisant une autre technique.
- 4Attraper, prendre, stopper une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gauler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne doit point gauler les arbres ni les secouer; tout au plus peut-on user modérément de ce dernier moyen vers la fin de la récolte. Les. prunes seront soigneusement ramassées tous les jours ou tous les deux jours, suivant le besoin : […].
Elles t’offriront, Amour, des raisins, des pommes cueillies sur l’arbre, et, pour te gauler des noix, emprunteront au bouvier son aiguillon.
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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