gambling
\gɑ̃.bliŋ\
The verdict
“gambling” is uncommon French (frequency #75,720 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,720
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture à 3SA (trois sans atout) en espérant que l’adversaire ne trouve pas l’entame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gambling · gambling · French
gambling · rank #75,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,720
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GAFAM
Nearest frequency peer: GAFAM (-2 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 « gambling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fuzz
fuzz
24,286 corpus weight
- Gabart
Gabart
24,285 corpus weight
- Gabby
Gabby
24,284 corpus weight
- GAFAM
GAFAM
24,283 corpus weight
- gambling
gambling
24,281 corpus weight
- gestuel
gestuel
24,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gambling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gambling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \gɑ̃.bliŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gambling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gambling is uncommon French at frequency #75,720 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \gɑ̃.bliŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gambling in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gambling, spelled G-A-M-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ouverture à 3SA (trois sans atout) en espérant que l’adversaire ne trouve pas l’entame.
- 2Action de jouer des jeux d’argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gambling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a encore fait un gambling, c’est un habitué.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).