gypsy
[ˈdʒɪp.si]
The verdict
“gypsy” is uncommon French (frequency #54,623 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,623
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rom, tsigane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gypsy · gypsy · French
gypsy · rank #54,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,623
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guidance
Nearest frequency peer: guidance (-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 « gypsy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guenon
guenon
45,381 corpus weight
- gueulant
gueulant
45,380 corpus weight
- guidance
guidance
45,379 corpus weight
- gypsy
gypsy
45,378 corpus weight
- géniteurs
géniteurs
45,377 corpus weight
- haan
haan
45,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gypsy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gypsy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈdʒɪp.si] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gypsy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gypsy is uncommon French at frequency #54,623 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈdʒɪp.si]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rom, tsigane.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gypsy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 gypsy, spelled G-Y-P-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Rom, tsigane.
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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