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GES

French, noun

GES is spelled G-E-S (3 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). GES is a French masculine noun meaning “abbreviation of gaz à effet de serre (greenhouse gas)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, gés is a different word: “plural of gé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gaz à effet de serre”.

What does GES mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of gaz à effet de serre (greenhouse gas)

noun

as gés
  1. 1

    masculineplural of gé

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Gaz à effet de serre.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of GES

  • GESs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is GES in French?

GES appears 2.7 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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