Gelabale
The verdict
“Gelabale” is uncommon French (frequency #99,139 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,139
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gelabale · Gelabale · French
Gelabale · rank #99,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gavi
Nearest frequency peer: Gavi (-3 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 « Gelabale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gatto
gatto
867 corpus weight
- gaullienne
gaullienne
866 corpus weight
- Gavi
Gavi
865 corpus weight
- Gelabale
Gelabale
862 corpus weight
- Ghanem
Ghanem
859 corpus weight
- gineste
gineste
858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gelabale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gelabale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gelabale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gelabale is uncommon French at frequency #99,139 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gelabale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Gelabale, spelled G-E-L-A-B-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gelabale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quatre Français, un record, ont été choisis au cours de la même draft à trois reprises : Petro, Mahinmi, Turiaf, Gelabale en 2005 ; Yabusele, Luwawu-Cabarrot, Cordinier, Cornelie en 2016 ; O. Dieng, Diabaté, Kamagaté, H. Besson en 2022.
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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