gadget
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,031
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
gadget is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet souvent ingénieux, mais presque toujours inutile sur le long terme. Pronounced \ɡa.dʒɛt\. Often confused with gage and gages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gadget |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.dʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gadget is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.dʒɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,031 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for gadget, with forms such as "agdget", "gaddget", and "gadegt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gage", "gages", "Gayet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gadget, spelled G-A-D-G-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet souvent ingénieux, mais presque toujours inutile sur le long terme.
- 2Objet de bimbeloterie ou sans valeur.
- 3Solution paraissant miraculeuse mais dont l’efficacité semble douteuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agdget,gaddget,gadegt,gadgett,gadgget,gadgte,gagdet,gdaget,ggadget
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gadget
Misspelling Variants of "gadget"
Frequency rank: #19,031 in French
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