gymnastes
\ʒim.nast\
The verdict
“gymnastes” is uncommon French (frequency #53,385 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,385
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gymnaste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gymnastes · gymnastes · French
gymnastes · rank #53,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,385
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grind
Nearest frequency peer: grind (-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 « gymnastes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gourdes
gourdes
46,619 corpus weight
- gravissime
gravissime
46,618 corpus weight
- grind
grind
46,617 corpus weight
- gymnastes
gymnastes
46,616 corpus weight
- gynécologues
gynécologues
46,615 corpus weight
- hadid
hadid
46,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gymnastes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gymnastes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒim.nast\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gymnastes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gymnastes is uncommon French at frequency #53,385 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒim.nast\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gymnaste.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gymnastes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gymnastes, spelled G-Y-M-N-A-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gymnaste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gymnastes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces formations sociales bénéficient d’un prestige qui ne laissent pas les gymnastes indifférents, qui élaborent des stratégies susceptibles d’intégrer leurs groupements dans l’espace social.
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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