Gilson
\ʒil.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“Gilson” is uncommon French (frequency #59,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,313
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-gilson · Gilson · French
Gilson · rank #59,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,313
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gicle
Nearest frequency peer: gicle (-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 « Gilson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galoper
galoper
40,691 corpus weight
- ghoul
ghoul
40,690 corpus weight
- gicle
gicle
40,689 corpus weight
- Gilson
Gilson
40,688 corpus weight
- givré
givré
40,686 corpus weight
- glissantes
glissantes
40,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gilson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gilson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒil.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gilson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gilson is uncommon French at frequency #59,313 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʒil.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gilson, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Gilson, spelled G-I-L-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gilson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La jeune Royannaise a eu la préférence du jury, devant deux autres jeunes filles de 17 ans, Talia Gilson, de Saujon, 1ʳᵉ dauphine, et Océane Tardy, de Royan, 2ᵉ dauphine.
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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