gagner

/\ɡa.ɲe\/ verb

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.

Key facts for gagner
PropertyValue
Headwordgagner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡa.ɲe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#822
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Acquérir par son travail, par son initiative ou par l’effet des circonstances, du hasard.
  2. 2
    Obtenir un profit financier.
  3. 3
    Percevoir, en parlant des gains que l’on fait au jeu, aux loteries ou dans un tirage financier.
  4. 4
    Être le vainqueur d’un autre joueur.
  5. 5
    Obtenir, remporter quelque chose que l’on désire.
  6. 6
    Subir un désagrément, un désavantage.
  7. 7
    Remporter un avantage dans une lutte ou un débat quelconque. — Note d’usage : Alors le complément direct indique l’espèce de lutte ou de débat.
  8. 8
    Avoir gain de cause, même quand il ne s’agit pas d’une affaire portée devant les juges.
  9. 9
    Acquérir, en parlant des avantages, des qualités, qu’une personne ou qu’une chose acquiert.
  10. 10
    Se concilier, se rendre favorable.
  11. 11
    Se diriger vers un endroit, et y arriver, y parvenir.
  12. 12
    S’étendre, se propager, en parlant de choses qui progressent.
  13. 13
    Rejoindre ; rattraper.
  14. 14
    Se diriger vers.
  15. 15
    Procurer un gain à son détenteur, en parlant des gains que l’on fait au jeu, aux loteries ou dans un tirage financier.
  16. 16
    Acquérir, en parlant des avantages, des qualités, qu’une personne ou qu’une chose acquiert.
  17. 17
    Mériter.
  18. 18
    Atteindre en parlant des besoins, des maux qui se font sentir par degrés, et, par extension en parlant de sentiments pesants.
  19. 19
    Se communiquer, se propager, en parlant de maladies.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aggner,gagenr,gaggner,gagnerr,gagnner,gagnre,ganger,ggagner,gganer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gagner

Misspelling Variants of "gagner"

aggner6gagenr6gaggner7gagnerr7gagnner7gagnre6ganger6ggagner7
Misspelling Variants of "gagner"

Frequency rank: #822 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gagner"?
"gagner" is spelled G-A-G-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.ɲe\.
What does "gagner" mean?
As a verb, "gagner" means: Acquérir par son travail, par son initiative ou par l’effet des circonstances, du hasard.
What words are commonly confused with "gagner"?
"gagner" is commonly confused with "garer", "gamer", "gaine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gagner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gagner" is \ɡa.ɲe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gagner" come from?
"gagner" 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.