gela
\ʒə.la\
The verdict
“gela” is uncommon French (frequency #77,552 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,552
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de geler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gela · gela · French
gela · rank #77,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,552
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gekko
Nearest frequency peer: gekko (-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 « gela »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gaume
Gaume
22,453 corpus weight
- GCC
GCC
22,451 corpus weight
- gekko
gekko
22,450 corpus weight
- gela
gela
22,449 corpus weight
- generis
generis
22,447 corpus weight
- gerbier
gerbier
22,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gela » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gela » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gela is uncommon French at frequency #77,552 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒə.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de geler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gela, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gela, spelled G-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de geler.
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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