gager
\ɡa.ʒe\
The verdict
“gager” is uncommon French (frequency #80,237 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,237
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parier, exprimer un simple avis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gager · gager · French
gager · rank #80,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,237
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gamineries
Nearest frequency peer: gamineries (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frelaté
frelaté
19,768 corpus weight
- fulgurantes
fulgurantes
19,766 corpus weight
- gager
gager
19,764 corpus weight
- gamineries
gamineries
19,763 corpus weight
- garantes
garantes
19,762 corpus weight
- gastronome
gastronome
19,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gager is uncommon French at frequency #80,237 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gager, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gager, spelled G-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Parier, exprimer un simple avis.
- 2Déposer quelque chose comme gage qui sera attribué au gagnant dans une contestation.
- 3Payer par an, par mois pour un service domestique ou autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je gagerais que le chef de la figuration du Châtelet ne me reconnaitrait pas, s'il passait à côté de moi dans la rue, reprit Alain.
— Oh ! je saurai bien te rattraper, lui répondit vivement Ernest. — Je parie que non, reprit aussitôt Charles. — Je gage que si », répliqua Ernest.
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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