gisent
\ʒiz\
The verdict
“gisent” is uncommon French (frequency #60,049 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,049
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gésir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gisent · gisent · French
gisent · rank #60,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,049
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gillespie
Nearest frequency peer: Gillespie (-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 « gisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- germanophon…
germanophones
39,954 corpus weight
- Gillespie
Gillespie
39,953 corpus weight
- gisent
gisent
39,952 corpus weight
- glaciales
glaciales
39,950 corpus weight
- GMC
GMC
39,949 corpus weight
- Gohan
Gohan
39,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒiz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gisent is uncommon French at frequency #60,049 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gisent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gisent, spelled G-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gésir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de gésir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils gisent épars, criblés de plomb, ou écrasés par l’avalanche déclenchée depuis le sommet des gorges.
En prison, ils ont la rage de quelque chose impossible à sortir de soi. Ils se défenent, ils attaquent, ils se font une matraque avec des boîtes de coca fourrées dans un sac, et se cognes, ils cognent jusqu’à ce qu’ils aient tellement cogné qu’ils gisent hors de toute votonté, bons pour la morgue ou l’infirmerie.
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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