gigue
\ʒiɡ\
The verdict
“gigue” is uncommon French (frequency #62,309 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,309
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à cordes du Moyen Âge de la famille des vielles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gigue · gigue · French
gigue · rank #62,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,309
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gazières
Nearest frequency peer: gazières (-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 « gigue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gans
Gans
37,696 corpus weight
- gazières
gazières
37,693 corpus weight
- gigue
gigue
37,692 corpus weight
- glaives
glaives
37,691 corpus weight
- glo
glo
37,690 corpus weight
- globulaire
globulaire
37,689 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gigue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒiɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gigue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gigue is uncommon French at frequency #62,309 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒiɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument à cordes du Moyen Âge de la famille des vielles.".
gigue has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gigue, spelled G-I-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument à cordes du Moyen Âge de la famille des vielles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gigue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gigue […] la plus petite de toutes [les vielles]
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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