galle

\ɡal\

/\ɡal\/ noun

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The verdict

“galle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,459) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#43,459
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excroissance produite sur diverses parties des végétaux par les piqûres d’insectes qui y déposent leurs œufs.

Corpus desk

Index FR-galle · galle · French

galle · rank #43,459 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,459
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH galas

Nearest frequency peer: galas (-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 « galle »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « galle » 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).

galle vs gare
60% similar
galle vs game
60% similar
galle vs gave
60% similar

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

Key facts for galle
PropertyValue
Headwordgalle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡal\
Letters5
Frequency rank#43,459
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « galle »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gallese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « galas » (#43,458), « galopante » (#43,460), « Gabriela » (#43,457). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « galle » est au #43,459. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for galle is neighbouring look-alikes ("gare", "game", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡal\. Frequency #43,459 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for galle, with forms such as "aglle", "galel", and "ggalle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gare", "game", "gave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 galle, spelled G-A-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Excroissance produite sur diverses parties des végétaux par les piqûres d’insectes qui y déposent leurs œufs.
  2. 2
    Insecte du genre cochenille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les galles du chêne sont les plus généralement connues, et il n’est point d’arbre dans nos contrées qui en présente un plus grand nombre d’espèces.
  2. Les mycocécidies sont, le plus souvent, des tuméfactions diffuses, épaississant et déformant l'organe attaqué (par exemple la « hernie » du Chou […]). Quelques mycocécidies sont, cependant, de véritables galles, c'est-à-dire des excroissances nettement délimitées et de forme plus ou moins définies.

This word in other languages

gall(English)agalla(Español)Gall(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aglle
  • galel
  • ggalle
  • glale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of galle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aglle2galel2ggalle1glale2
Edit distance from "galle"

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 "galle"?
"galle" is spelled G-A-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡal\.
What does "galle" mean?
As a noun, "galle" means: Excroissance produite sur diverses parties des végétaux par les piqûres d’insectes qui y déposent leurs œufs.
What words are commonly confused with "galle"?
"galle" is commonly confused with "gare", "game", "gave". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "galle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "galle" is \ɡal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "galle" come from?
"galle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

galas#43,458filou#43,438Filip#43,437ferro#43,434

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list