gélules
\ʒe.lyl\
The verdict
“gélules” is uncommon French (frequency #52,726 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,726
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gélule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gelules · gélules · French
gélules · rank #52,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,726
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guérard
Nearest frequency peer: Guérard (-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 « gélules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guts
guts
47,277 corpus weight
- Guérard
Guérard
47,276 corpus weight
- gélules
gélules
47,275 corpus weight
- Götze
Götze
47,273 corpus weight
- Haroun
Haroun
47,271 corpus weight
- haussa
haussa
47,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gélules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gélules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.lyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gélules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gélules is uncommon French at frequency #52,726 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒe.lyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gélule.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gélules in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gélules, spelled G-É-L-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gélule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gélules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous pouvez toujours avaler des gélules d’huile de poisson.
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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