gambas
\ɡɑ̃.bas\
The verdict
“gambas” is uncommon French (frequency #74,023 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,023
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de gamba. Le pluriel espagnol est pris à tort pour un singulier → voir paparazzi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gambas · gambas · French
gambas · rank #74,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,023
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gallium
Nearest frequency peer: Gallium (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gambas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fémoral
fémoral
25,981 corpus weight
- Gallipoli
Gallipoli
25,980 corpus weight
- Gallium
Gallium
25,979 corpus weight
- gambas
gambas
25,978 corpus weight
- gambit
gambit
25,977 corpus weight
- gaou
gaou
25,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gambas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gambas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃.bas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gambas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gambas is uncommon French at frequency #74,023 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃.bas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de gamba. Le pluriel espagnol est pris à tort pour un singulier → voir paparazzi.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gambas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gambas, spelled G-A-M-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Variante de gamba. Le pluriel espagnol est pris à tort pour un singulier → voir paparazzi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gambas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prévoir une taille de plus du pantalon en sortant de table : tomates, piments frais grillés, « pochas », morue-gambas, dessert.
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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