gibelin
\ʒi.bə.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“gibelin” is uncommon French (frequency #69,871 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,871
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui soutient l’empereur d'Allemagne, et s’oppose aux Guelfes partisans du pape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gibelin · gibelin · French
gibelin · rank #69,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,871
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gerd
Nearest frequency peer: gerd (-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 « gibelin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Genesio
Genesio
30,133 corpus weight
- gerd
gerd
30,131 corpus weight
- gibelin
gibelin
30,130 corpus weight
- girondine
girondine
30,129 corpus weight
- glissées
glissées
30,128 corpus weight
- golgi
golgi
30,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gibelin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gibelin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒi.bə.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gibelin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gibelin is uncommon French at frequency #69,871 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒi.bə.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui soutient l’empereur d'Allemagne, et s’oppose aux Guelfes partisans du pape.".
gibelin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gibelin, spelled G-I-B-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui soutient l’empereur d'Allemagne, et s’oppose aux Guelfes partisans du pape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gibelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’on interroge la poésie, le premier chant de la muse nationale fut l’épopée gibeline de Dante, et, depuis, la littérature, au-delà des monts, se développa en maudissant les papes.
L’Italie du moyen âge étoit l’Italie des deux grandes factions guelfe et gibeline, l’Italie des rivalités républicaines et des petites tyrannies ; on n’y entendoit parler que de crimes et de liberté ; tout s’y faisoit à la pointe du poignard.
Antonyms
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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