gal
\ɡal\
The verdict
“gal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,563) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,563
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure d’accélération du système CGS, valant 1 centimètre par seconde par seconde, soit 0,01 mètre par seconde carrée, et dont le symbole est Gal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gal · gal · French
gal · rank #23,563 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,563
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH féodal
Nearest frequency peer: féodal (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gal »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fâche
fâche
76,441 corpus weight
- félicitation
félicitation
76,440 corpus weight
- féodal
féodal
76,439 corpus weight
- gal
gal
76,438 corpus weight
- Gascogne
Gascogne
76,437 corpus weight
- giron
giron
76,436 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gal » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡal\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gal »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gal is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡal\. Frequency #23,563 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Unité de mesure d’accélération du système CGS, valant 1 centimètre par seconde par seconde, soit 0,01 mètre par seconde carrée, et dont le symbole est Gal.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gal, spelled G-A-L.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure d’accélération du système CGS, valant 1 centimètre par seconde par seconde, soit 0,01 mètre par seconde carrée, et dont le symbole est Gal.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).