geai
\ʒɛ\
The verdict
“geai” is uncommon French (frequency #53,973 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,973
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau passereau, de taille moyenne, souvent au plumage coloré, souvent bruyant, de la famille des corvidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geai · geai · French
geai · rank #53,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,973
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH galli
Nearest frequency peer: galli (-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 « geai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fébrilité
fébrilité
46,031 corpus weight
- gagnerai
gagnerai
46,030 corpus weight
- galli
galli
46,029 corpus weight
- geai
geai
46,028 corpus weight
- Giancarlo
Giancarlo
46,027 corpus weight
- gibet
gibet
46,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geai is uncommon French at frequency #53,973 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d’oiseau passereau, de taille moyenne, souvent au plumage coloré, souvent bruyant, de la famille des corvidés.".
geai has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is geai, spelled G-E-A-I.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau passereau, de taille moyenne, souvent au plumage coloré, souvent bruyant, de la famille des corvidés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le geai se rapproche du perroquet par sa faculté d’imiter les sons.
Un paon muait ; un Geai prit son plumage ; Puis après se l'accommoda ; Puis parmi d'autres Paons tout fier se panada, Croyant être un beau personnage.
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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