gadget
/ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
"gadget" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gadget” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,029. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,029
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gadget · gadget · English
gadget · rank #16,029 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,029
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gasp
Nearest frequency peer: gasp (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “gadget”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- FFS
FFS
83,976 corpus weight
- finalist
finalist
83,975 corpus weight
- gadget
gadget
83,972 corpus weight
- gasp
gasp
83,971 corpus weight
- genital
genital
83,970 corpus weight
- glitch
glitch
83,969 corpus weight
What this shows “gadget” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gadget |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gadget”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gadget (IPA /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,029 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gadget, with forms such as "agdget", "gaddget", and "gadegt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gage", "gauge", "garnet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to bu… The correct English form is gadget, spelled G-A-D-G-E-T.
Definition
- 1A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
- 2Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
- 3Any consumer electronics product.
- 4A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- 5A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- 6A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gadget appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
Etymology
Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agdget
- gaddget
- gadegt
- gadgett
- gadgget
- gadgte
- gagdet
- gdaget
- ggadget
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gadget - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).