gee
/d͡ʒiː/
"gee" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,427) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,427
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gee · gee · English
gee · rank #12,427 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,427
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gag
Nearest frequency peer: gag (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “gee”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- fowler
fowler
87,577 corpus weight
- funky
funky
87,576 corpus weight
- gag
gag
87,575 corpus weight
- gee
gee
87,574 corpus weight
- gigantic
gigantic
87,573 corpus weight
- gill
gill
87,572 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “gee” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | gee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /d͡ʒiː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “gee”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gee is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /d͡ʒiː/. Frequency #12,427 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Gloss: "A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gee in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GM", "GF", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus. The correct English form is gee, spelled G-E-E.
Definition
- 1A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gee, I didn't know that!
Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
Etymology
A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).