gamete
/ˈɡæmiːt/
"gamete" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gamete” is uncommon English (frequency #97,057 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,057
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gamete · gamete · English
gamete · rank #97,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,057
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gamecock
Nearest frequency peer: gamecock (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “gamete”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Galashiels
Galashiels
2,948 corpus weight
- gamecock
gamecock
2,946 corpus weight
- gamete
gamete
2,944 corpus weight
- geon
geon
2,940 corpus weight
- gesso
gesso
2,939 corpus weight
- Ginnie
Ginnie
2,937 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gamete” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamete |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæmiːt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gamete” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gamete is uncommon English at frequency #97,057 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡæmiːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.".
gamete doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). The correct English form is gamete, spelled G-A-M-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
Synonyms
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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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