gigabyte
\ʒi.ɡa.bajt\
The verdict
“gigabyte” is uncommon French (frequency #89,757 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,757
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gigaoctet, soit 10⁹ bytes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gigabyte · gigabyte · French
gigabyte · rank #89,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,757
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH georgiana
Nearest frequency peer: georgiana (-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 « gigabyte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gentili
gentili
10,247 corpus weight
- gentle
gentle
10,246 corpus weight
- georgiana
georgiana
10,245 corpus weight
- gigabyte
gigabyte
10,244 corpus weight
- gioia
gioia
10,243 corpus weight
- Girona
Girona
10,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gigabyte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigabyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ɡa.bajt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gigabyte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gigabyte is uncommon French at frequency #89,757 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ɡa.bajt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gigaoctet, soit 10⁹ bytes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gigabyte in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gigabyte, spelled G-I-G-A-B-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Gigaoctet, soit 10⁹ bytes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gigabyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sachant qu'une clé USB de quelques centimètres peut déjà stocker 256 gigabytes, soit 14 millions de pages de texte, ces 93000 m² d'archives (…) nous feront approcher l'ordre du yottabyte d'informations, soit près de deux mille fois le total du trafic internet annuel dans le monde.
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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