gives
\ˈɡɪvz\
The verdict
“gives” is uncommon French (frequency #66,762 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,762
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent indicatif de give.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gives · gives · French
gives · rank #66,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,762
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gitanes
Nearest frequency peer: gitanes (-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 « gives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- genièvre
genièvre
33,243 corpus weight
- girly
girly
33,242 corpus weight
- gitanes
gitanes
33,240 corpus weight
- gives
gives
33,239 corpus weight
- gluante
gluante
33,238 corpus weight
- Gnagna
Gnagna
33,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡɪvz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gives is uncommon French at frequency #66,762 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈɡɪvz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent indicatif de give.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gives, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gives, spelled G-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent indicatif de give.
Synonyms
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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