gagner
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#822
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gagner is aFrenchverb. It means: Acquérir par son travail, par son initiative ou par l’effet des circonstances, du hasard. Pronounced \ɡa.ɲe\. It ranks #822 in French word frequency. Often confused with garer and gamer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gagner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡa.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gagner is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.ɲe\. Corpus data places it at rank #822 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 19 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 gagner, with forms such as "aggner", "gagenr", and "gaggner". 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, "garer", "gamer", "gaine", 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 gagner, spelled G-A-G-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acquérir par son travail, par son initiative ou par l’effet des circonstances, du hasard.
- 2Obtenir un profit financier.
- 3Percevoir, en parlant des gains que l’on fait au jeu, aux loteries ou dans un tirage financier.
- 4Être le vainqueur d’un autre joueur.
- 5Obtenir, remporter quelque chose que l’on désire.
- 6Subir un désagrément, un désavantage.
- 7Remporter un avantage dans une lutte ou un débat quelconque. — Note d’usage : Alors le complément direct indique l’espèce de lutte ou de débat.
- 8Avoir gain de cause, même quand il ne s’agit pas d’une affaire portée devant les juges.
- 9Acquérir, en parlant des avantages, des qualités, qu’une personne ou qu’une chose acquiert.
- 10Se concilier, se rendre favorable.
- 11Se diriger vers un endroit, et y arriver, y parvenir.
- 12S’étendre, se propager, en parlant de choses qui progressent.
- 13Rejoindre ; rattraper.
- 14Se diriger vers.
- 15Procurer un gain à son détenteur, en parlant des gains que l’on fait au jeu, aux loteries ou dans un tirage financier.
- 16Acquérir, en parlant des avantages, des qualités, qu’une personne ou qu’une chose acquiert.
- 17Mériter.
- 18Atteindre en parlant des besoins, des maux qui se font sentir par degrés, et, par extension en parlant de sentiments pesants.
- 19Se communiquer, se propager, en parlant de maladies.
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Also misspelled as: aggner,gagenr,gaggner,gagnerr,gagnner,gagnre,ganger,ggagner,gganer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gagner"
Frequency rank: #822 in French
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