gèlent
\ʒɛl\
The verdict
“gèlent” is uncommon French (frequency #74,047 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,047
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de geler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gelent · gèlent · French
gèlent · rank #74,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gwendolyn
Nearest frequency peer: Gwendolyn (-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 « gèlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grammys
Grammys
25,958 corpus weight
- graphène
graphène
25,957 corpus weight
- Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn
25,955 corpus weight
- gèlent
gèlent
25,954 corpus weight
- gémis
gémis
25,953 corpus weight
- génisses
génisses
25,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gèlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gèlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gèlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gèlent is uncommon French at frequency #74,047 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gèlent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gèlent, spelled G-È-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de geler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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