gigantisme
\ʒi.ɡɑ̃.tism\
The verdict
“gigantisme” is uncommon French (frequency #55,993 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,993
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exagération du développement de certaines parties du corps humain ou du corps en général, dans le sens de la hauteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gigantisme · gigantisme · French
gigantisme · rank #55,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,993
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gibiers
Nearest frequency peer: gibiers (-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 « gigantisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gennaro
Gennaro
44,011 corpus weight
- Gianluigi
Gianluigi
44,010 corpus weight
- gibiers
gibiers
44,009 corpus weight
- gigantisme
gigantisme
44,008 corpus weight
- Girault
Girault
44,007 corpus weight
- Giuliani
Giuliani
44,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gigantisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigantisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ɡɑ̃.tism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gigantisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gigantisme is uncommon French at frequency #55,993 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ɡɑ̃.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gigantisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gigantisme, spelled G-I-G-A-N-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Exagération du développement de certaines parties du corps humain ou du corps en général, dans le sens de la hauteur.
- 2Énormité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gigantisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Né en 1761, Charles Byrne était atteint de gigantisme, en raison d’une tumeur bénigne de l’hypophyse non diagnostiquée.
Dans l’acromégalie, comme d’ailleurs dans le gigantisme, maladie qui a tant de points communs avec elle, le trouble de la nutrition qui fait les déformations squelettiques serait le phénomène primitif; la tumeur de l’hypophyse est secondaire.
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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