gesticulations
\ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“gesticulations” is uncommon French (frequency #65,970 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,970
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gesticulation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gesticulations · gesticulations · French
gesticulations · rank #65,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,970
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gears
Nearest frequency peer: gears (-2 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 « gesticulations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- félicitée
félicitée
34,035 corpus weight
- gastronomes
gastronomes
34,034 corpus weight
- gears
gears
34,033 corpus weight
- gesticulati…
gesticulations
34,031 corpus weight
- Givet
Givet
34,029 corpus weight
- glycogène
glycogène
34,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gesticulations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gesticulations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #65,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gesticulations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gesticulations is uncommon French at frequency #65,970 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gesticulation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gesticulations in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gesticulations, spelled G-E-S-T-I-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gesticulation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gesticulations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paroles et les gesticulations qui, hier, suscitaient l’enthousiasme, déclenchaient à présent les rires.
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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