gesticuler
\ʒɛs.ti.ky.le\
The verdict
“gesticuler” is uncommon French (frequency #69,117 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,117
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire trop de gestes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gesticuler · gesticuler · French
gesticuler · rank #69,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,117
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gestalt
Nearest frequency peer: Gestalt (-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 « gesticuler »
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 « gesticuler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gesticuler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɛs.ti.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gesticuler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gesticuler is uncommon French at frequency #69,117 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒɛs.ti.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire trop de gestes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gesticuler, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gesticuler, spelled G-E-S-T-I-C-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire trop de gestes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gesticuler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, tenez, celui qui gesticule en parlant, et dont la voix est un peu criarde, c’est M. d’Alembert, le secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie française.
En arrivant en face du parapluie, [le cheval] eut peur, se cabra et voulut revenir sur ses pas ; mais il me vit, gesticulant comme un télégraphe et criant comme un sauvage. Se voyant pris entre deux feux, il s’échappa en bondissant sur la rampe qui l’avait tant effrayé.
This word in other languages
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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