gerbille
\ʒɛʁ.bij\
The verdict
“gerbille” is uncommon French (frequency #91,733 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,733
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit rongeur appartenant à la sous-famille des Gerbilles, se distinguant facilement des souris et des rats par sa queue poilue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gerbille · gerbille · French
gerbille · rank #91,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,733
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genouillères
Nearest frequency peer: genouillères (-2 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 « gerbille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gargariser
gargariser
8,273 corpus weight
- garnit
garnit
8,272 corpus weight
- geno
geno
8,271 corpus weight
- genouillères
genouillères
8,270 corpus weight
- gerbille
gerbille
8,268 corpus weight
- ghazal
ghazal
8,266 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gerbille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerbille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.bij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gerbille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gerbille is uncommon French at frequency #91,733 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛʁ.bij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit rongeur appartenant à la sous-famille des Gerbilles, se distinguant facilement des souris et des rats par sa queue poilue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gerbille, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gerbille, spelled G-E-R-B-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit rongeur appartenant à la sous-famille des Gerbilles, se distinguant facilement des souris et des rats par sa queue poilue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gerbille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gerbille est docile et facile à apprivoiser.
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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