gila
\ʒi.la\
The verdict
“gila” is uncommon French (frequency #96,964 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,964
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe giler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gila · gila · French
gila · rank #96,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,964
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH ging
Nearest frequency peer: ging (+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 « gila »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gibus
gibus
3,041 corpus weight
- gigaoctets
gigaoctets
3,040 corpus weight
- gigogne
gigogne
3,039 corpus weight
- gila
gila
3,037 corpus weight
- ging
ging
3,036 corpus weight
- glandouille
glandouille
3,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gila » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒi.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gila » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gila is uncommon French at frequency #96,964 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒi.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe giler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gila, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 gila, spelled G-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe giler.
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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