gyroscope
\ʒi.ʁɔs.kɔp\
The verdict
“gyroscope” is uncommon French (frequency #64,494 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,494
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui exploite le principe de la conservation du moment angulaire en physique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gyroscope · gyroscope · French
gyroscope · rank #64,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,494
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gwenn
Nearest frequency peer: gwenn (-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 « gyroscope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gua
gua
35,511 corpus weight
- guetteurs
guetteurs
35,509 corpus weight
- gwenn
gwenn
35,508 corpus weight
- gyroscope
gyroscope
35,507 corpus weight
- habert
habert
35,505 corpus weight
- handel
handel
35,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gyroscope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gyroscope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁɔs.kɔp\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gyroscope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gyroscope is uncommon French at frequency #64,494 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒi.ʁɔs.kɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gyroscope has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gyroscope, spelled G-Y-R-O-S-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui exploite le principe de la conservation du moment angulaire en physique.
- 2Capteur de position angulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gyroscope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un gyroscope peut servir à indiquer le Nord.
GASTON, fouillant aussi. – Il n’y a pas de polichinelles, d’arche de Noé ? Mme RENAUD – Tout petit, tu n’as plus voulu que des jouets scientifiques. Voilà tes gyroscopes, tes éprouvettes, tes électroaimants, tes cornues, ta grue mécanique. GEORGES – Nous voulions faire de toi un brillant ingénieur.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).