Gestalt
\ɡəˈʃtalt\
The verdict
“Gestalt” is uncommon French (frequency #69,116 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,116
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme, silhouette, aspect extérieur, configuration caractéristique ou particulière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gestalt · Gestalt · French
Gestalt · rank #69,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,116
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gesticuler
Nearest frequency peer: gesticuler (+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 « Gestalt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garo
garo
30,888 corpus weight
- gazeta
gazeta
30,887 corpus weight
- Gestalt
Gestalt
30,885 corpus weight
- gesticuler
gesticuler
30,884 corpus weight
- Gini
Gini
30,883 corpus weight
- GlaxoSmithK…
GlaxoSmithKline
30,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gestalt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gestalt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡəˈʃtalt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gestalt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gestalt is uncommon French at frequency #69,116 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡəˈʃtalt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gestalt, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Gestalt, spelled G-E-S-T-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Forme, silhouette, aspect extérieur, configuration caractéristique ou particulière.
- 2Forme, manière dont une chose est ou peut être faite, présentée, traitée.
- 3Personnage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gestalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Journalist beschrieb Thich Nhat Hanh damals als „winzige, schlanke, in Roben gehüllte Gestalt; seine Augen sind abwechselnd traurig und lebhaft; seine Äußerungen sind bescheiden und bewegend.“
Antisemitismus ist in keiner Gestalt zu tolerieren – in keiner.
Antonyms
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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