gâche
\ɡɑʃ\
The verdict
“gâche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,895
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’une serrure dans laquelle le pêne s’insère pour maintenir une porte fermée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gache · gâche · French
gâche · rank #15,895 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,895
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grossière
Nearest frequency peer: grossière (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gâche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glamour
glamour
84,108 corpus weight
- grossière
grossière
84,107 corpus weight
- gâche
gâche
84,106 corpus weight
- génériques
génériques
84,105 corpus weight
- Gérald
Gérald
84,104 corpus weight
- gérés
gérés
84,103 corpus weight
What this shows « gâche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | gâche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gâche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gâche (IPA \ɡɑʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,895 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gâche, with forms such as "gache", "gcâhe", and "ggâche". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gare", "game", "gage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gâche, spelled G-Â-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Partie d’une serrure dans laquelle le pêne s’insère pour maintenir une porte fermée.
- 2Anneau de fer qui est scellé dans un mur pour soutenir et attacher un tuyau de descente, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gâche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'allai immédiatement à la porte : la porte était refermée ; les verrous semblaient n'être point sortis de leur gâche ; […].
Il tira le premier tiroir du meuble, et le sortit entièrement de sa gâche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gache
- gcâhe
- ggâche
- gâcche
- gâceh
- gâchhe
- gâhce
- âgche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gâche - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).