gaba
\ɡa.ba\
The verdict
“gaba” is uncommon French (frequency #81,186 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,186
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aminoacide, neuromédiateur important.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaba · gaba · French
gaba · rank #81,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,186
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH féminiser
Nearest frequency peer: féminiser (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gaba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fujimori
Fujimori
18,820 corpus weight
- Fulbert
Fulbert
18,819 corpus weight
- féminiser
féminiser
18,816 corpus weight
- gaba
gaba
18,815 corpus weight
- Gargamel
Gargamel
18,813 corpus weight
- garnissent
garnissent
18,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaba is uncommon French at frequency #81,186 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aminoacide, neuromédiateur important.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gaba in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaba, spelled G-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Aminoacide, neuromédiateur important.
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.
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