# gamut

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɡæm.ət/ · frequency rank #34,072

## Definitions
1. A (normally) complete range.
2. All the notes in a musical scale.
3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

## Etymology
1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

## Easily confused with
- **gut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gut)
- **gat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gat)
- **gout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gout)
- **Gaul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gaul)
- **glut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-glut)
- **Gant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gant)
- **gaunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-gaunt)
- **grout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamut-vs-grout)
- **gam** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gam-vs-gamut)
- **game** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/game-vs-gamut)
- **gait** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gait-vs-gamut)
- **Gama** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gama-vs-gamut)
- **games** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/games-vs-gamut)
- **gamma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamma-vs-gamut)
- **gamer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gamer-vs-gamut)
- **gambit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gambit-vs-gamut)

## Common misspellings (7)
`agmut`, `gammut`, `gamtu`, `gamutt`, `gaumt`, `ggamut`, `gmaut`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gamut