gabe
\ɡab\
The verdict
“gabe” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #45,631 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #45,631
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gaber.
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 | gabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡab\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gabe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gabe is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡab\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,631 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gabe, with forms such as "agbe", "gabbe", and "gaeb". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GB", "gré", "gai", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 gabe, spelled G-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gaber.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gaber.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de gaber.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de gaber.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de gaber.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agbe,gabbe,gaeb,gbae,ggabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gabe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “gabe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡab\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “GB” - see the side-by-side comparison. gabe vs GB
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.