gall

\ɡɔːl\

/\ɡɔːl\/ noun

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The verdict

“gall” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,453) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#20,453
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bile, fiel, amertume.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gall · gall · French

gall · rank #20,453 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,453
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gale

Nearest frequency peer: gale (-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 « gall »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « gall » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gall vs gl
50% similar
gall vs gel
50% similar
gall vs gap
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gall
PropertyValue
Headwordgall
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɔːl\
Letters4
Frequency rank#20,453
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gall »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).gallse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gale » (#20,452), « Gaël » (#20,454), « Freddie » (#20,451). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gall » est au #20,453. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for gall is neighbouring look-alikes ("gl", "gel", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡɔːl\. Frequency #20,453 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Bile, fiel, amertume.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for gall, with forms such as "agll", "ggall", and "glal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gl", "gel", "gap", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gall, spelled G-A-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bile, fiel, amertume.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It seemed that the bitterest thoughts of her life must have centred about the wooded reaches and the bright green meadows around Goring; but women strangely hug the knife that stabs them, and, perhaps, amidst the gall, there may have mingled also sunny memories of sweetest hours, spent upon those shadowed deeps over which the great trees bend their branch…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agll
  • ggall
  • glal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gall - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

agll2ggall1glal2
Edit distance from "gall"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gall"?
"gall" is spelled G-A-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɔːl\.
What does "gall" mean?
As a noun, "gall" means: Bile, fiel, amertume.
What words are commonly confused with "gall"?
"gall" is commonly confused with "gl", "gel", "gap". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gall"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gall" is \ɡɔːl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gall" come from?
"gall" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gall", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Gaël#20,454gale#20,452lock#20,485mage#20,491

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list