gageure

/\ɡa.ʒyʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,799

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

gageure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Promesse que des personnes se font réciproquement de payer ce dont elles conviennent en gageant. Pronounced \ɡa.ʒyʁ\. Often confused with galère and gazeuse.

Key facts for gageure
PropertyValue
Headwordgageure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.ʒyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,799
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gageure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gageure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.ʒyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,799 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for gageure, with forms such as "aggeure", "gaegure", and "gagerue". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "galère", "gazeuse", 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 gageure, spelled G-A-G-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Promesse que des personnes se font réciproquement de payer ce dont elles conviennent en gageant.
  2. 2
    Chose gagée.
  3. 3
    Action, opinion singulière et étrange, qui semble un défi au bon sens.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aggeure,gaegure,gagerue,gageuer,gageurre,gaggeure,gaguere,ggaeure,ggageure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gageure

Misspelling Variants of "gageure"

aggeure7gaegure7gagerue7gageuer7gageurre8gaggeure8gaguere7ggaeure7
Misspelling Variants of "gageure"

Frequency rank: #41,799 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gageure"?
"gageure" is spelled G-A-G-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.ʒyʁ\.
What does "gageure" mean?
As a noun, "gageure" means: Promesse que des personnes se font réciproquement de payer ce dont elles conviennent en gageant.
What words are commonly confused with "gageure"?
"gageure" is commonly confused with "galère", "gazeuse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gageure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gageure" is \ɡa.ʒyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gageure" come from?
"gageure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.