gili
\ˈɡiː.li\
The verdict
“gili” is uncommon French (frequency #93,815 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,815
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de kili par adoucissement (k → g).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gili · gili · French
gili · rank #93,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,815
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH giflée
Nearest frequency peer: giflée (-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 « gili »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gendarmeries
gendarmeries
6,190 corpus weight
- Gergovie
Gergovie
6,189 corpus weight
- germées
germées
6,188 corpus weight
- giflée
giflée
6,187 corpus weight
- gili
gili
6,186 corpus weight
- gira
gira
6,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gili » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gili |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡiː.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gili » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gili is uncommon French at frequency #93,815 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈɡiː.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de kili par adoucissement (k → g).".
Zero misspellings are on record for gili in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gili, spelled G-I-L-I.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de kili par adoucissement (k → g).
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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