gain
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,762
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Profit que l’on tire d’une entreprise, d’un travail, d’un commerce, d’une vente, etc. Pronounced \ɡɛ̃\. It ranks #4,762 in French word frequency. Often confused with GN and gif.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gain is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,762 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gain, with forms such as "agin", "gainn", and "gani". 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, "GN", "gif", "gap", 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 gain, spelled G-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Profit que l’on tire d’une entreprise, d’un travail, d’un commerce, d’une vente, etc.
- 2Succès, victoire, avantage que l’on a dans une entreprise, dans une affaire.
- 3Rapport entre la valeur d'entrée et celle de sortie de la tension, de l’intensité ou de la puissance d’un montage. Il est généralement exprimé en décibel.
- 4Capacité d’amplification d’une antenne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agin,gainn,gani,ggain,gian
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gain
Misspelling Variants of "gain"
Frequency rank: #4,762 in French
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