gémissant
\ʒe.mi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“gémissant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,327 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,327
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui gémit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gemissant · gémissant · French
gémissant · rank #55,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,327
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guérillas
Nearest frequency peer: guérillas (-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 « gémissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guinées
guinées
44,678 corpus weight
- gustatif
gustatif
44,677 corpus weight
- gustatives
gustatives
44,676 corpus weight
- guérillas
guérillas
44,675 corpus weight
- gémissant
gémissant
44,674 corpus weight
- gênerait
gênerait
44,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gémissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gémissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒe.mi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gémissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gémissant is uncommon French at frequency #55,327 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒe.mi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui gémit.".
gémissant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gémissant, spelled G-É-M-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui gémit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gémissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’autre couchée sur son lit, gémissante et douloureuse, ne se souleva qu’avec peine pour retomber bientôt lourdement sur sa couche.
Un peuple gémissant.
This word in other languages
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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