gémonies
\ʒe.mɔ.ni\
The verdict
“gémonies” is uncommon French (frequency #84,861 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,861
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu qui était destiné, chez les Romains, à exposer les corps des criminels après l’exécution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gemonies · gémonies · French
gémonies · rank #84,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,861
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gélule
Nearest frequency peer: gélule (-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 « gémonies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guigues
guigues
15,143 corpus weight
- guimbarde
guimbarde
15,142 corpus weight
- gélule
gélule
15,141 corpus weight
- gémonies
gémonies
15,140 corpus weight
- haku
haku
15,139 corpus weight
- hangouts
hangouts
15,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gémonies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gémonies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.mɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gémonies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gémonies is uncommon French at frequency #84,861 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒe.mɔ.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gémonies in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gémonies, spelled G-É-M-O-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Lieu qui était destiné, chez les Romains, à exposer les corps des criminels après l’exécution.
- 2Châtiment, outrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gémonies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le porc Vitellius roulait aux gémonies. Escalier des grandeurs et des ignominies, Bagne effrayant des morts, pilori des néants, Saignant, fumant, infect, ce charnier de géants Semblait fait pour pourrir le squelette du monde.
Il nous faut aller pourrir aux gémonies comme chiens crevés ou chevaux morts, après avoir en notre vie amusé les plus gens de bien.
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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