geindre
\ʒɛ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“geindre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,973 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,973
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se lamenter, gémir, se plaindre à diverses reprises d’une voix languissante et non articulée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geindre · geindre · French
geindre · rank #57,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gato
Nearest frequency peer: gato (-2 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 « geindre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fumeuses
fumeuses
42,034 corpus weight
- Féraud
Féraud
42,031 corpus weight
- gato
gato
42,030 corpus weight
- geindre
geindre
42,028 corpus weight
- Genji
Genji
42,024 corpus weight
- Givors
Givors
42,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geindre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geindre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geindre is uncommon French at frequency #57,973 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒɛ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se lamenter, gémir, se plaindre à diverses reprises d’une voix languissante et non articulée.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for geindre in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 geindre, spelled G-E-I-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Se lamenter, gémir, se plaindre à diverses reprises d’une voix languissante et non articulée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geindre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vieillards les plus débiles restaient dans leurs lits, et il n’y avait point de maison où l’on ne trouvât cinq ou six lits où geignaient les aïeuls.
Elle recommença ses doléances, elle se mit à geindre de plus belle sur le manque de fortune qui la faisait échouer au port.
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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