gémissent
\ʒe.mis\
The verdict
“gémissent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,974
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de gémir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gemissent · gémissent · French
gémissent · rank #95,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,974
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gust
Nearest frequency peer: gust (-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 « gémissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grosseto
Grosseto
4,031 corpus weight
- gust
gust
4,028 corpus weight
- gémissent
gémissent
4,027 corpus weight
- générative
générative
4,026 corpus weight
- géolocalisé…
géolocalisées
4,025 corpus weight
- géorgiques
géorgiques
4,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gémissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gémissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒe.mis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gémissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gémissent is uncommon French at frequency #95,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒe.mis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
gémissent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gémissent, spelled G-É-M-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de gémir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de gémir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de gémir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gémissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La voix narrative commence à « décaler » l’événement en établissant une classification des réactions des accidentés (certains gémissent, d’autres hurlent, d’autres encore sanglotent ; quant aux morts, ils se tiennent cois), puis le comique absurde atteint son apogée avec la description apocalyptique de l’hôpital de campagne où les blessés sont amenés, et…
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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