gad
\ɡæd\
The verdict
“gad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,150) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,150
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trainer, errer, vagabonder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gad · gad · French
gad · rank #20,150 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,150
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fétiche
Nearest frequency peer: fétiche (-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 « gad »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- forcées
forcées
79,855 corpus weight
- fortin
fortin
79,854 corpus weight
- freine
freine
79,853 corpus weight
- fétiche
fétiche
79,852 corpus weight
- gad
gad
79,851 corpus weight
- gérées
gérées
79,848 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gad » 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 | gad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡæd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gad »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gad is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ɡæd\. Frequency #20,150 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Trainer, errer, vagabonder.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gad in our index, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 gad, spelled G-A-D.
Definition
- 1Trainer, errer, vagabonder.
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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