gériatrique
\ʒe.ʁja.tʁik\
The verdict
“gériatrique” is uncommon French (frequency #82,088 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,088
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la gériatrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geriatrique · gériatrique · French
gériatrique · rank #82,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,088
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gênées
Nearest frequency peer: gênées (+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 « gériatrique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grison
grison
17,918 corpus weight
- grouillante
grouillante
17,916 corpus weight
- gériatrique
gériatrique
17,913 corpus weight
- gênées
gênées
17,911 corpus weight
- habitiez
habitiez
17,909 corpus weight
- Hain
Hain
17,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gériatrique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gériatrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒe.ʁja.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gériatrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gériatrique is uncommon French at frequency #82,088 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒe.ʁja.tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la gériatrie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gériatrique in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gériatrique, spelled G-É-R-I-A-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la gériatrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gériatrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prévalence de l'incontinence fécale en institution gériatrique était de 33 à 54 % selon la durée de l'étude.
Le gériatre de secteur doit être une médecin qualifié en gérontologie. Ceci implique une formation médicale gériatrique d'une part, et médico-sociale d'autre part.
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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