gicle
\ʒikl\
The verdict
“gicle” is uncommon French (frequency #59,312 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,312
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gicler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gicle · gicle · French
gicle · rank #59,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,312
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH ghoul
Nearest frequency peer: ghoul (-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 « gicle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galliano
galliano
40,692 corpus weight
- galoper
galoper
40,691 corpus weight
- ghoul
ghoul
40,690 corpus weight
- gicle
gicle
40,689 corpus weight
- Gilson
Gilson
40,688 corpus weight
- givré
givré
40,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gicle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gicle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒikl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gicle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gicle is uncommon French at frequency #59,312 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒikl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
gicle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 gicle, spelled G-I-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gicler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gicler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de gicler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de gicler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de gicler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gicle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans voir des gens qu’on aime se faire désestomaquer au couteau à pain sous nos yeux, de préférence avec du sang qui nous gicle sur le visage, pour bien accentuer la perversité atroce de ce moment ignoble et traumatisant à vie…
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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