gibet
\ʒi.bɛ\
The verdict
“gibet” is uncommon French (frequency #53,975 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,975
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Potence où l’on exécute ceux qui sont condamnés à être pendus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gibet · gibet · French
gibet · rank #53,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,975
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Giancarlo
Nearest frequency peer: Giancarlo (-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 « gibet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galli
galli
46,029 corpus weight
- geai
geai
46,028 corpus weight
- Giancarlo
Giancarlo
46,027 corpus weight
- gibet
gibet
46,026 corpus weight
- Giotto
Giotto
46,024 corpus weight
- Girondin
Girondin
46,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gibet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gibet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gibet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gibet is uncommon French at frequency #53,975 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gibet, 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gibet, spelled G-I-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1Potence où l’on exécute ceux qui sont condamnés à être pendus.
- 2Fourches patibulaires où l’on exposait les corps de ceux qui avaient été pendus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gibet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] à droite, un gibet suspendu qui demande aux passants l’aumône comme un manchot.
Enguerrand de Marigny, le ministre des finances qui avait inspiré à Philippe le Bel sa politique d’altération des monnaies, fut pendu au gibet de Montfaucon.
Synonyms
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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