gendarmeries
\ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\
The verdict
“gendarmeries” is uncommon French (frequency #93,811 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,811
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gendarmerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gendarmeries · gendarmeries · French
gendarmeries · rank #93,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,811
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gergovie
Nearest frequency peer: Gergovie (+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 « gendarmeries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gasp
gasp
6,194 corpus weight
- Gass
Gass
6,193 corpus weight
- gendarmeries
gendarmeries
6,190 corpus weight
- Gergovie
Gergovie
6,189 corpus weight
- germées
germées
6,188 corpus weight
- giflée
giflée
6,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gendarmeries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gendarmeries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gendarmeries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gendarmeries is uncommon French at frequency #93,811 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gendarmerie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gendarmeries, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gendarmeries, spelled G-E-N-D-A-R-M-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gendarmerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gendarmeries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sources où les faits-diversiers puisent une partie de leurs informations sont, à Paris, la Préfecture de police et la Sûreté, où sont centralisés les rapports reçus des différents quartiers ; en province, les secrétariats de mairie, les commissariats et les gendarmeries.
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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