gaga
\ɡa.ɡa\
The verdict
“gaga” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,941
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stéphanois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaga · gaga · French
gaga · rank #14,941 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,941
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fraise
Nearest frequency peer: fraise (-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 « gaga »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flamands
flamands
85,063 corpus weight
- fraise
fraise
85,061 corpus weight
- gaga
gaga
85,060 corpus weight
- gagnée
gagnée
85,059 corpus weight
- garden
garden
85,058 corpus weight
- gisements
gisements
85,057 corpus weight
What this shows « gaga » 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 | gaga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡa.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaga »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gaga (IPA \ɡa.ɡa\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,941 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stéphanois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaga, with forms such as "agga", "gaag", and "gagga". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GG", "gai", "gap", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaga, spelled G-A-G-A.
Definition
- 1Stéphanois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le patois utilisé, le parler gaga, relève de la zone du franco-provençal, et mêle l’occitan, dont la limite septentrionale touche aux bornes du pays stéphanois, au français. Il utilise des mots et des tournures incompréhensibles pour un étranger.
Pour commencer, dit Luc, dans un joli minibus vert, le guide à l’accent gaga nous a emmenés, forcément, à Geoffroy-Guichard, qu’il a rebaptisé « le ventre de l’ASS ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agga
- gaag
- gagga
- ggaa
- ggaga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaga - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gaga", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).