3G
\tʁwa.ʒe\
The verdict
“3G” sits in 5 confusable pairs (corpus #14,398) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,398
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- “3” headwords
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réseau mobile à débits théoriques de 2 à 42 Mb/s.
Corpus desk
Index FR-3g · 3G · French
3G · rank #14,398 · 0 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,398
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 13
- PHOTO-FINISH évalue
Nearest frequency peer: évalue (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 3G »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- éteinte
éteinte
85,606 corpus weight
- évaluations
évaluations
85,605 corpus weight
- évalue
évalue
85,604 corpus weight
- 3G
3G
85,603 corpus weight
- 4K
4K
85,602 corpus weight
- abdomen
abdomen
85,601 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 3G » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 3G |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁwa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 3G »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 3G is neighbouring look-alikes ("3M", "3", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tʁwa.ʒe\. Frequency #14,398 among 13 “3” headwords. Gloss: "Réseau mobile à débits théoriques de 2 à 42 Mb/s.".
3G doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "3M", "3", "3e", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is 3G, spelled 3-G.
Definition
- 1Réseau mobile à débits théoriques de 2 à 42 Mb/s.
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.