gipsy
The verdict
“gipsy” is uncommon French (frequency #60,821 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,821
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom que l’on donne aux bohémiens en Angleterre.
| 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) |
Where “gipsy” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gipsy is uncommon French at frequency #60,821 among 194,371 “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.
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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Using “gipsy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-I-P-S-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.