gees
\dʒiːz\
The verdict
“gees” is uncommon French (frequency #60,816 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,816
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de gee.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gees |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒiːz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gees” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gees is uncommon French at frequency #60,816 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒiːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gee.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gees in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gees, spelled G-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gee.
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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Using “gees”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-E-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.