gémissait
\ʒe.mi.sɛ\
The verdict
“gémissait” is uncommon French (frequency #89,777 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,777
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de gémir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gemissait · gémissait · French
gémissait · rank #89,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,777
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guppy
Nearest frequency peer: guppy (-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 « gémissait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guennadi
Guennadi
10,227 corpus weight
- guili
guili
10,226 corpus weight
- guppy
guppy
10,225 corpus weight
- gémissait
gémissait
10,224 corpus weight
- habillais
habillais
10,223 corpus weight
- hagiographi…
hagiographiques
10,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gémissait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gémissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒe.mi.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gémissait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gémissait is uncommon French at frequency #89,777 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒe.mi.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de gémir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gémissait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gémissait, spelled G-É-M-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de gémir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gémissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il treuilla avec méthode, tour après tour, et le bois grinçait, craquait, gémissait sous l’effort.
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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