gecko
\ʒe.ko\
The verdict
“gecko” is uncommon French (frequency #52,711 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,711
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de nombreux lézards constituant l’infra-ordre des Gekkota.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gecko · gecko · French
gecko · rank #52,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,711
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garderons
Nearest frequency peer: garderons (-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 « gecko »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Galapagos
Galapagos
47,294 corpus weight
- galloise
galloise
47,292 corpus weight
- garderons
garderons
47,291 corpus weight
- gecko
gecko
47,290 corpus weight
- genêts
genêts
47,287 corpus weight
- glaise
glaise
47,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gecko » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gecko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gecko » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gecko is uncommon French at frequency #52,711 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒe.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire de nombreux lézards constituant l’infra-ordre des Gekkota.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gecko, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gecko, spelled G-E-C-K-O.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de nombreux lézards constituant l’infra-ordre des Gekkota.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gecko appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s’amuse à traquer les geckos avec sa lampe de poche.
La tarente est un gecko nocturne très répandu dans le sud de la France et tout le pourtour méditerranéen.
Synonyms
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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