galet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,309
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
galet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caillou usé et poli par le frottement de l'eau, des pierres entre elles ou du vent. Pronounced \ɡa.lɛ\. Often confused with get and gare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for galet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,309 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for galet, with forms such as "aglet", "gaelt", and "galett". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "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 galet, spelled G-A-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caillou usé et poli par le frottement de l'eau, des pierres entre elles ou du vent.
- 2Jeu d'enfant où l’on pousse un caillou plat.
- 3Objet en forme de disque.
- 4Disque ou petite roue, roulette de bois, de plastique, de métal, d'ivoire que l'on intercale entre deux pièces en mouvement pour réduire le frottement.
- 5Poulie ou roue dentée, généralement non motrice, libre de tourner, destinée à guider ou à tendre une courroie ou une chaine.
- 6Poulie ou roue dentée, généralement non motrice, libre de tourner, destinée à guider ou à tendre une courroie ou une chaine.
- 7Petite roue motrice entraînant un système par frottement.
- 8Bouée qui permet de reconnaître la situation d'un filet ou d'un casier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aglet,gaelt,galett,galte,ggalet,glaet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for galet
Misspelling Variants of "galet"
Frequency rank: #38,309 in French
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