gavant
\ɡa.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“gavant” is uncommon French (frequency #84,831 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,831
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui gave de nourriture (souvent utilisé pour qualifier un comportement maternel).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gavant · gavant · French
gavant · rank #84,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,831
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Ganges
Nearest frequency peer: Ganges (-2 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 « gavant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galène
galène
15,174 corpus weight
- Gamache
Gamache
15,173 corpus weight
- Ganges
Ganges
15,172 corpus weight
- gavant
gavant
15,170 corpus weight
- geographical
geographical
15,168 corpus weight
- gib
gib
15,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gavant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gavant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡa.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gavant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gavant is uncommon French at frequency #84,831 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡa.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gavant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gavant, spelled G-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui gave de nourriture (souvent utilisé pour qualifier un comportement maternel).
- 2Qui gave, dans le sens d’excéder, ennuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gavant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mère gavante fait l’unanimité des critiques contre elle parce qu’elle perturbe l’apprentissage des processus de régulation alimentaire.
Elle a été jusque là assez présente, mais aussi suffisamment absente, nourricière mais pas gavante, pour ne pas représenter un danger, celui de sa disparition comme celui de l’étouffement.
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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