geyser
\ʒɛ.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“geyser” is uncommon French (frequency #60,819 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,819
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Source d’eau chaude qui jaillit par intermittence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geyser · geyser · French
geyser · rank #60,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,819
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gerhardt
Nearest frequency peer: Gerhardt (-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 « geyser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gees
gees
39,185 corpus weight
- Gerhardt
Gerhardt
39,183 corpus weight
- geyser
geyser
39,182 corpus weight
- gibbon
gibbon
39,181 corpus weight
- gipsy
gipsy
39,180 corpus weight
- glitch
glitch
39,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geyser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geyser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛ.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geyser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geyser is uncommon French at frequency #60,819 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɛ.zɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Source d’eau chaude qui jaillit par intermittence.".
geyser has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is geyser, spelled G-E-Y-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Source d’eau chaude qui jaillit par intermittence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geyser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
à moins que cet écueil ne fût soumis aux expansions intermittentes d’un geyser
Les geysers de Californie.
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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