gayant
\ɡa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“gayant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,774 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,774
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mannequin représentant un géant, porté notamment à Douai lors de certaines manifestations locales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gayant · gayant · French
gayant · rank #92,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genin
Nearest frequency peer: genin (+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 « gayant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gambe
gambe
7,231 corpus weight
- gaufrier
gaufrier
7,229 corpus weight
- gayant
gayant
7,227 corpus weight
- genin
genin
7,226 corpus weight
- germon
germon
7,225 corpus weight
- GFA
GFA
7,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gayant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gayant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gayant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gayant is uncommon French at frequency #92,774 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mannequin représentant un géant, porté notamment à Douai lors de certaines manifestations locales.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gayant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 gayant, spelled G-A-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mannequin représentant un géant, porté notamment à Douai lors de certaines manifestations locales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gayant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
DOUAI – Les servantes lavent et nettoient partout. Les plus pauvres gens eux-mêmes, une fois au moins par an, à la fête de Gayant, lavent toute leur maison, intérieur et extérieur. Il faut retenir six mois à l’avance les peintres et les vernisseurs.
Frédéric Masson avait, chose extraordinaire, grandi et blanchi en se voûtant, comparable à ces « gayants » grotesques des fêtes du nord qui font peur aux petits enfants.
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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