gibus
\ʒi.bys\
The verdict
“gibus” is uncommon French (frequency #96,960 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,960
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haut-de-forme qui s’aplatit et se relève à l’aide de ressorts mécaniques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gibus · gibus · French
gibus · rank #96,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,960
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gheorghe
Nearest frequency peer: Gheorghe (-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 « gibus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- geology
geology
3,045 corpus weight
- Gheorghe
Gheorghe
3,042 corpus weight
- gibus
gibus
3,041 corpus weight
- gigaoctets
gigaoctets
3,040 corpus weight
- gigogne
gigogne
3,039 corpus weight
- gila
gila
3,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gibus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gibus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.bys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gibus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gibus is uncommon French at frequency #96,960 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Haut-de-forme qui s’aplatit et se relève à l’aide de ressorts mécaniques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gibus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gibus, spelled G-I-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Haut-de-forme qui s’aplatit et se relève à l’aide de ressorts mécaniques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gibus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon habit et mon pantalon étaient assez râpés, mais à la lumière cela passe ; mon chapeau était déformé, en m’asseyant dessus j’en fis sur-le-champ un gibus ; bref, je parvins à me faire assez élégant, mais il me fallait absolument des gants neufs : à ma dernière paire, il n’y avait plus aucun pouce […]
On avait sorti des armoires d’antiques chapeaux, hérissés comme des barbets qui ont couru dans les broussailles, des gibus au ruban large comme la main.
Synonyms
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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