gipsy
The verdict
“gipsy” is uncommon French (frequency #60,821 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,821
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que l’on donne aux bohémiens en Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gipsy · gipsy · French
gipsy · rank #60,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,821
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gibbon
Nearest frequency peer: gibbon (-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 « gipsy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gerhardt
Gerhardt
39,183 corpus weight
- geyser
geyser
39,182 corpus weight
- gibbon
gibbon
39,181 corpus weight
- gipsy
gipsy
39,180 corpus weight
- glitch
glitch
39,179 corpus weight
- Glucksmann
Glucksmann
39,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gipsy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gipsy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gipsy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gipsy is uncommon French at frequency #60,821 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom que l’on donne aux bohémiens en Angleterre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gipsy in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gipsy, spelled G-I-P-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom que l’on donne aux bohémiens en Angleterre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gipsy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a l’aspect d’un gipsy à la peau noire ; tandis que son costume et ses manières sont d’un gentleman, c’est-à-dire autant d’un gentleman que celles de plus d’un squire de province ; un peu négligé peut-être, mais ne paraissant pas désavantageusement dans sa négligence, parce qu’il a une figure droite et agréable, et aussi un peu morose.
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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