gagne

/\ɡaɲ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,594

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gagne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Esprit de compétition, énergie qui fait qu’on se surpasse pour emporter la victoire. Pronounced \ɡaɲ\. It ranks #1,594 in French word frequency. Often confused with gan and gare.

Key facts for gagne
PropertyValue
Headwordgagne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡaɲ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,594
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gagne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,594 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for gagne, with forms such as "aggne", "gagen", and "gaggne". 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, "gan", "gare", "game", 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 gagne, spelled G-A-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Esprit de compétition, énergie qui fait qu’on se surpasse pour emporter la victoire.
  2. 2
    Victoire sportive.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aggne,gagen,gaggne,gagnne,ggagne,ggane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gagne

Misspelling Variants of "gagne"

aggne5gagen5gaggne6gagnne6ggagne6ggane5
Misspelling Variants of "gagne"

Frequency rank: #1,594 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gagne"?
"gagne" is spelled G-A-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaɲ\.
What does "gagne" mean?
As a noun, "gagne" means: Esprit de compétition, énergie qui fait qu’on se surpasse pour emporter la victoire.
What words are commonly confused with "gagne"?
"gagne" is commonly confused with "gan", "gare", "game". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gagne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gagne" is \ɡaɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gagne" come from?
"gagne" 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.