gema
[ˈxema]
The verdict
“gema” is uncommon French (frequency #78,457 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,457
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gemme, pierre précieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gema · gema · French
gema · rank #78,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,457
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Geraint
Nearest frequency peer: Geraint (+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 « gema »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gallienne
Gallienne
21,548 corpus weight
- galériens
galériens
21,547 corpus weight
- Gassendi
Gassendi
21,546 corpus weight
- gema
gema
21,544 corpus weight
- Geraint
Geraint
21,543 corpus weight
- Gervaise
Gervaise
21,542 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gema » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gema |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxema] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gema » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gema is uncommon French at frequency #78,457 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈxema]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gemme, pierre précieuse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gema in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gema, spelled G-E-M-A.
Definition
- 1Gemme, pierre précieuse.
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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