gillette
\ʒi.lɛt\
The verdict
“gillette” is uncommon French (frequency #53,376 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,376
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lame de rasoir manuel, en particulier celle de la marque Gillette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gillette · gillette · French
gillette · rank #53,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,376
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gigas
Nearest frequency peer: gigas (-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 « gillette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gigas
gigas
46,626 corpus weight
- gillette
gillette
46,625 corpus weight
- glabre
glabre
46,624 corpus weight
- glad
glad
46,623 corpus weight
- glissez
glissez
46,622 corpus weight
- gnomes
gnomes
46,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gillette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gillette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gillette is uncommon French at frequency #53,376 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lame de rasoir manuel, en particulier celle de la marque Gillette.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gillette, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 gillette, spelled G-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Lame de rasoir manuel, en particulier celle de la marque Gillette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gillette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque jour, elle faisait irruption dans ma chambre, sans frapper — à quoi bon frapper ? — étalait partout mes vêtements pour recoudre les boutons manquants, me chauffait du lait pour la nuit et affûtait mes gillettes. Elle venait me voir au Museum et, avant de partir, elle rangeait mes notes et me fourrait mon attaché-case sous le bras, quand elle n’insi…
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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