gadget
\ɡa.dʒɛt\
The verdict
“gadget” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,031. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,031
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet souvent ingénieux, mais presque toujours inutile sur le long terme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gadget · gadget · French
gadget · rank #19,031 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,031
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fécondité
Nearest frequency peer: fécondité (-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 « gadget »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frotte
frotte
80,973 corpus weight
- fus
fus
80,972 corpus weight
- fécondité
fécondité
80,971 corpus weight
- gadget
gadget
80,970 corpus weight
- gentilhomme
gentilhomme
80,969 corpus weight
- Gers
Gers
80,968 corpus weight
What this shows « gadget » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gadget »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gadget (IPA \ɡa.dʒɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,031 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gadget, with forms such as "agdget", "gaddget", and "gadegt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 documented word history exists 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 gadget, spelled G-A-D-G-E-T.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gadget appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre foyer s'équipait, se suréquipait de tous les appareils et gadgets qui simplifient la vie domestique. Grille-pain, brosse à dents électrique, chaîne 2 x 100 watts et autres remparts illusoires contre le vide de l'existence.
Le cosmophone est un des rares gadgets sonores distribués dans "Pif Gadget".
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agdget
- gaddget
- gadegt
- gadgett
- gadgget
- gadgte
- gagdet
- gdaget
- ggadget
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gadget - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).