gage
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,715
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sûreté réelle par laquelle un débiteur remet à son créancier un bien meuble ou un ensemble de biens meubles, présents ou futurs, lui appartenant pour garantir sa dette. Pronounced \ɡaʒ\. It ranks #8,715 in French word frequency. Often confused with GG and gré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gage is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,715 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gage, with forms such as "agge", "gaeg", and "gagge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GG", "gré", "gai", 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 gage, spelled G-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sûreté réelle par laquelle un débiteur remet à son créancier un bien meuble ou un ensemble de biens meubles, présents ou futurs, lui appartenant pour garantir sa dette.
- 2Tout objet, meuble ou immeuble qui assure le paiement d’une dette.
- 3Action ou peine qu'un joueur ayant perdu ou échoué à une épreuve doit accomplir ou subir.
- 4Ensemble des objets qu’un joueur a déposé chaque fois qu’il s’est trompé, et qu’il ne peut retirer, à la fin du jeu, qu’après avoir subi une pénitence.
- 5Consigne donnée lorsque, dans une contestation, on est convenu que celui qui perdra paiera à l’autre une somme ou quelque autre chose.
- 6Garantie, assurance, preuve, témoignage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agge,gaeg,gagge,ggae,ggage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gage
Misspelling Variants of "gage"
Frequency rank: #8,715 in French
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