geste
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,780
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
geste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action et mouvement du corps et particulièrement des bras et des mains, action et mouvement employés à signifier quelque chose. Pronounced \ʒɛst\. It ranks #2,780 in French word frequency. Often confused with get and gîte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for geste is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛst\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,780 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for geste, with forms such as "egste", "geset", and "gesste". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "gîte", "gets", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is geste, spelled G-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action et mouvement du corps et particulièrement des bras et des mains, action et mouvement employés à signifier quelque chose.
- 2Mouvements de la tête, du torse, et surtout des bras, comme les pas sont les mouvements des pieds.
- 3Simple mouvement du bras, ou du corps, de la tête.
- 4Action, généralement spontanée, et d’ailleurs bonne ou mauvaise, qui frappe l’esprit, qui attire l’attention.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egste,geset,gesste,gestte,getse,ggeste,gsete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for geste
Misspelling Variants of "geste"
Frequency rank: #2,780 in French
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