gamelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,367
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
gamelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de grande marmite qui était en usage sur les vaisseaux, dans les armées et les prisons et dans laquelle plusieurs matelots, soldats ou détenus mangeaient ensemble. Pronounced \ɡa.mɛl\. Often confused with Gaulle and Gazelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.mɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,367 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gamelle, with forms such as "agmelle", "gaemlle", and "gamele". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Gaulle", "Gazelle", "giselle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gamelle, spelled G-A-M-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grande marmite qui était en usage sur les vaisseaux, dans les armées et les prisons et dans laquelle plusieurs matelots, soldats ou détenus mangeaient ensemble.
- 2Écuelle de fer-blanc destinée aux soldats.
- 3Récipient individuel permettant d'emporter ses repas sur son lieu de travail.
- 4Récipient divers en terre, en bois ou en fer-blanc ; casserole.
- 5Écuelle des animaux familiers.
- 6Table commune des officiers de marine.
- 7Repas ; bouffe.
- 8Projecteur au théâtre, en studio etc.
- 9Chute.
- 10Échec cuisant.
- 11Au baby-foot, balle entrée puis ressortie du but.
- 12Jeu dont le but est de shooter dans un ballon sans être vu par le gardien du ballon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agmelle,gaemlle,gamele,gamelel,gamlele,gammelle,ggamelle,gmaelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gamelle
Misspelling Variants of "gamelle"
Frequency rank: #29,367 in French
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