gelait
\ʒə.lɛ\
The verdict
“gelait” is uncommon French (frequency #95,949 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,949
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de geler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gelait · gelait · French
gelait · rank #95,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,949
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH generally
Nearest frequency peer: generally (+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 « gelait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galvanique
galvanique
4,057 corpus weight
- galvaudée
galvaudée
4,056 corpus weight
- gelait
gelait
4,052 corpus weight
- generally
generally
4,050 corpus weight
- genrée
genrée
4,049 corpus weight
- gera
gera
4,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gelait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gelait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gelait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gelait is uncommon French at frequency #95,949 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒə.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de geler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gelait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gelait, spelled G-E-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif 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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