gamin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,850
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gamin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans l'industrie du verre, nom donné autrefois au jeune garçon qui aidait le souffleur à cueillir le verre chaud dans le four avec la canne et diverses autres opérations. Dans différents métiers, j... Pronounced \ɡa.mɛ̃\. It ranks #3,850 in French word frequency. Often confused with Gin and gan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamin is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.mɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,850 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gamin, with forms such as "agmin", "gaimn", and "gaminn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gin", "gan", "gamme", 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 gamin, spelled G-A-M-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans l'industrie du verre, nom donné autrefois au jeune garçon qui aidait le souffleur à cueillir le verre chaud dans le four avec la canne et diverses autres opérations. Dans différents métiers, jeune garçon servant d'aide ou de commissionaire.
- 2Enfant pauvre qui vit dans les rues.
- 3Petit garçon ; petite fille. — Note d’usage : Il se dit en particulier des enfants qui passent leur temps à jouer dans les rues.
- 4Enfant espiègle et hardi.
- 5Personne notablement plus jeune par rapport à une autre.
- 6Fils ou fille encore jeune.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agmin,gaimn,gaminn,gammin,gamni,ggamin,gmain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gamin"
Frequency rank: #3,850 in French
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