gag
\ɡaɡ\
The verdict
“gag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,551) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,551
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effet comique, blague.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gag · gag · French
gag · rank #19,551 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,551
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gabarit
Nearest frequency peer: gabarit (-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 « gag »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fresques
fresques
80,453 corpus weight
- funéraires
funéraires
80,452 corpus weight
- gabarit
gabarit
80,451 corpus weight
- gag
gag
80,450 corpus weight
- géantes
géantes
80,449 corpus weight
- générateurs
générateurs
80,448 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gag » 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 | gag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gag »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gag is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡaɡ\. Frequency #19,551 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Effet comique, blague.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gag in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gag, spelled G-A-G.
Definition
- 1Effet comique, blague.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prétendre qu’un gag se doit d’être obligatoirement comique est apporter une restriction humiliante à sa toute puissante indépendance.
Les Allemands ont inscrit un but gag, qui plus est au pire moment pour les Olympiens.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).