gier
\ɡiːɐ̯\
The verdict
“gier” is uncommon French (frequency #56,616 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,616
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de gieren.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gier · gier · French
gier · rank #56,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,616
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Ghouta
Nearest frequency peer: Ghouta (-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 « gier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fédérées
fédérées
43,389 corpus weight
- gavent
gavent
43,388 corpus weight
- Getafe
Getafe
43,387 corpus weight
- Ghouta
Ghouta
43,386 corpus weight
- gier
gier
43,385 corpus weight
- Girardot
Girardot
43,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡiːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gier is uncommon French at frequency #56,616 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡiːɐ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de gieren.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 gier, spelled G-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de gieren.
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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