G
The verdict
“G” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #900) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #900
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole chimique du glucinium, ancien nom du béryllium (Be).
Corpus desk
Index FR-g · G · French
G · rank #900 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #900
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH frais
Nearest frequency peer: frais (-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 « G »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- défense
défense
99,104 corpus weight
- désormais
désormais
99,103 corpus weight
- frais
frais
99,102 corpus weight
- G
G
99,101 corpus weight
- instant
instant
99,099 corpus weight
- livres
livres
99,098 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « G » 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 | G |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « G »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for G is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #900 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole chimique du glucinium, ancien nom du béryllium (Be).".
G has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is G, spelled G.
Definition
- 1Symbole chimique du glucinium, ancien nom du béryllium (Be).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how G appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
FORMULE, s. f., formula. Forme prescrite et consacrée. […] Les formules ou symboles chimiques de Berzelius expriment très bien la composition des corps, tant sous le rapport de leurs élémens, que sous celui du nombre de leurs atomes constituans. D’abord chaque corps simple est désigné par un signe particulier, représentant le poids relatif de son atome. C…
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.