gazière
\ɡa.zjɛʁ\
The verdict
“gazière” is uncommon French (frequency #55,987 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,987
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière dans le secteur du gaz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaziere · gazière · French
gazière · rank #55,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,987
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gartner
Nearest frequency peer: gartner (-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 « gazière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ganesh
Ganesh
44,017 corpus weight
- garin
garin
44,016 corpus weight
- gartner
gartner
44,015 corpus weight
- gazière
gazière
44,014 corpus weight
- Gazprom
Gazprom
44,013 corpus weight
- Gennaro
Gennaro
44,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gazière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gazière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.zjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gazière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gazière is uncommon French at frequency #55,987 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.zjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gazière, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gazière, spelled G-A-Z-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière dans le secteur du gaz.
- 2Ouvrière employée à la fabrication de la gaze.
- 3Femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gazière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’occasion de cette réflexion, nous ne croyons pas trop déplaire au lecteur en lui donnant ici la liste des principales professions nommées par Restif et figurées par Binet, dans les Contemporaines du commun et dans les Contemporaines par gradation. Plusieurs de ces professions n’existent plus aujourd’hui. […] Gazière
Clouer, cloués sur un banc, rien d'autre à faire, on boit de la bière On siffle les gazières qui n'ont pas de frère
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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