giclée
\ʒi.kle\
The verdict
“giclée” is uncommon French (frequency #68,315 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,315
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jet de liquide qui gicle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-giclee · giclée · French
giclée · rank #68,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,315
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH giffard
Nearest frequency peer: giffard (+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 « giclée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garat
garat
31,689 corpus weight
- Gavras
Gavras
31,688 corpus weight
- giclée
giclée
31,686 corpus weight
- giffard
giffard
31,685 corpus weight
- gosset
gosset
31,682 corpus weight
- gouvernait
gouvernait
31,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « giclée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | giclée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.kle\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « giclée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
giclée is uncommon French at frequency #68,315 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for giclée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is giclée, spelled G-I-C-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Jet de liquide qui gicle.
- 2Décharge d'une mitrailleuse, rafale.
- 3Impression sur imprimante à jet d’encre haute définition et grand format.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how giclée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des vins de l'année, sans velours, dont la giclée folle allait au plafond.
Envoyer une giclée.
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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