gesticulation
\ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“gesticulation” is uncommon French (frequency #86,744 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,744
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de gesticuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gesticulation · gesticulation · French
gesticulation · rank #86,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,744
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gercées
Nearest frequency peer: gercées (-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 « gesticulation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gener
gener
13,260 corpus weight
- genere
genere
13,259 corpus weight
- gercées
gercées
13,258 corpus weight
- gesticulati…
gesticulation
13,257 corpus weight
- glandeur
glandeur
13,255 corpus weight
- glaçante
glaçante
13,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gesticulation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gesticulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #86,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gesticulation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gesticulation is uncommon French at frequency #86,744 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gesticulation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gesticulation, spelled G-E-S-T-I-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de gesticuler.
- 2Fait de montrer ses forces sans les utiliser dans un but d’intimidation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gesticulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et c’était un brouhaha grandissant, de sourdes et violentes conversations, des exclamations, des rires, au milieu d’une gesticulation passionnée.
Toutes les religions et toutes les morales ont tendu à jeter un voile sur la gesticulation fornicatoire qui est, cependant, à la base de la vie et se définit, en dernière analyse, que comme une opération d'assouvissement et de soulagement.
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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