gésier
French, noun/ʒe.zje/
gésier is spelled G-É-S-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gésier is a French masculine noun meaning “gizzard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le second ventricule de certains oiseaux qui se nourrissent de grains, comme les poules, les pigeons, etc”.
What does gésier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegizzard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le second ventricule de certains oiseaux qui se nourrissent de grains, comme les poules, les pigeons, etc. 2. Estomac.
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 gésier
- gésiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gésier?
- /ʒe.zje/
- \ʒe.zje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gésier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gésier in French?
gésier appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).