gira
\ʒi.ʁa\
The verdict
“gira” is uncommon French (frequency #93,817 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,817
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de girer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gira · gira · French
gira · rank #93,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,817
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gili
Nearest frequency peer: gili (-2 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 « gira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- germées
germées
6,188 corpus weight
- giflée
giflée
6,187 corpus weight
- gili
gili
6,186 corpus weight
- gira
gira
6,184 corpus weight
- globulaires
globulaires
6,182 corpus weight
- gnon
gnon
6,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gira is uncommon French at frequency #93,817 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒi.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de girer.".
gira doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gira, spelled G-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de girer.
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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