geais
\ʒɛ\
The verdict
“geais” is uncommon French (frequency #94,836 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,836
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de geai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geais · geais · French
geais · rank #94,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,836
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaspésienne
Nearest frequency peer: gaspésienne (-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 « geais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garennes
garennes
5,168 corpus weight
- Garten
Garten
5,167 corpus weight
- gaspésienne
gaspésienne
5,166 corpus weight
- geais
geais
5,165 corpus weight
- Geyer
Geyer
5,162 corpus weight
- giacinto
giacinto
5,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geais is uncommon French at frequency #94,836 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de geai.".
geais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is geais, spelled G-E-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de geai.
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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