gamète
\ɡa.mɛt\
The verdict
“gamète” is uncommon French (frequency #97,987 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,987
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule sexuée haploïde permettant la reproduction sexuée des eucaryotes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gamete · gamète · French
gamète · rank #97,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,987
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gamberger
Nearest frequency peer: gamberger (-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 « gamète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Galatie
Galatie
2,017 corpus weight
- gallego
gallego
2,016 corpus weight
- gamberger
gamberger
2,015 corpus weight
- gamète
gamète
2,014 corpus weight
- gasser
gasser
2,013 corpus weight
- gauge
gauge
2,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gamète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gamète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gamète is uncommon French at frequency #97,987 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.mɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cellule sexuée haploïde permettant la reproduction sexuée des eucaryotes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gamète in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gamète, spelled G-A-M-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cellule sexuée haploïde permettant la reproduction sexuée des eucaryotes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gamète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La période de fécondation est limitée au temps de vie des gamètes ; l’ovocyte a une durée de vie de 24 heures et le spermatozoïde de 48 à 72 heures.
Les Mousses que nous observons dans la nature sont donc des gamétophytes. Ces individus haploïdes possèdent des organes sexuels mâles (anthéridies) qui produisent des gamètes flagellés appelés anthérozoïdes.
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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