ging
\ɡɪŋ\
The verdict
“ging” is uncommon French (frequency #96,965 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,965
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de gehen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ging · ging · French
ging · rank #96,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,965
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gila
Nearest frequency peer: gila (-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 « ging »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- glaçure
glaçure
3,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ging » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ging |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ging » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ging is uncommon French at frequency #96,965 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ging doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ging, spelled G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de gehen.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de gehen.
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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