gambit
\ɡɑ̃.bit\
The verdict
“gambit” is uncommon French (frequency #74,024 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,024
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sacrifice d’une pièce en vue d’obtenir un avantage positionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gambit · gambit · French
gambit · rank #74,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gambas
Nearest frequency peer: gambas (-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 « gambit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Gardois
Gardois
25,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gambit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gambit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃.bit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gambit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gambit is uncommon French at frequency #74,024 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gambit in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gambit, spelled G-A-M-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Sacrifice d’une pièce en vue d’obtenir un avantage positionnel.
- 2Type d’ouverture présentant un tel sacrifice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gambit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en était à se dire qu’il pouvait bien laisser Frolov manger son pion en F6 avec sa tour si c’est ce qu’il voulait, que le gambit en valait la peine.
Aux échecs, un gambit peut être accepté, si la pièce offerte est prise, sinon il est refusé.
Synonyms
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).