gerbant
\ʒɛʁ.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“gerbant” is uncommon French (frequency #83,907 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,907
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait gerber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gerbant · gerbant · French
gerbant · rank #83,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,907
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Georgi
Nearest frequency peer: Georgi (-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 « gerbant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galeuses
galeuses
16,098 corpus weight
- gaudi
gaudi
16,097 corpus weight
- generator
generator
16,096 corpus weight
- Georgi
Georgi
16,095 corpus weight
- gerbant
gerbant
16,094 corpus weight
- glucide
glucide
16,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gerbant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerbant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gerbant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gerbant is uncommon French at frequency #83,907 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒɛʁ.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gerbant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gerbant, spelled G-E-R-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait gerber.
- 2Qui inspire de l’aversion, qui dégoute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gerbant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est rarissime que je prenne un bain en compagnie de quelqu’un. Partager la flotte d’un autre bipède est pour moi la chose la plus gerbante au monde, après l’usage de sa brosse à dents.
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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