gentrification
\ʒɑ̃.tʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“gentrification” is uncommon French (frequency #63,020 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,020
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Processus par lequel le profil sociologique et social d’un quartier se transforme au profit d’une couche sociale supérieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentrification · gentrification · French
gentrification · rank #63,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,020
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gentiane
Nearest frequency peer: gentiane (-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 « gentrification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gaude
gaude
36,984 corpus weight
- geller
geller
36,983 corpus weight
- gentiane
gentiane
36,982 corpus weight
- gentrificat…
gentrification
36,981 corpus weight
- genêt
genêt
36,980 corpus weight
- Gershwin
Gershwin
36,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentrification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentrification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.tʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #63,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentrification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentrification is uncommon French at frequency #63,020 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.tʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Processus par lequel le profil sociologique et social d’un quartier se transforme au profit d’une couche sociale supérieure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gentrification in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gentrification, spelled G-E-N-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Processus par lequel le profil sociologique et social d’un quartier se transforme au profit d’une couche sociale supérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentrification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soumis à une gentrification féroce, assailli par des hordes de banlieusards avides de se croire dans le coup, squatté par les m’as-tu-vu, le boulevard, entre Sherbrooke et Duluth, a perdu au fil des ans quelques-uns de ses charmes et de ces petits commerces si typiques.
Voisin de Roger lui aussi, Benoît Pilon s’est intéressé à cet énergumène et nous livre un petit bijou tourné dans le respect, sans complaisance, avec le souci de ne jamais oublier une époque que la gentrification a chassée du revers de la main avec ses cafés à cinq balles saupoudrés de cannelle (pouache !).
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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