gamine
\ɡa.min\
The verdict
“gamine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,487
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant pauvre qui vit dans les rues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gamine · gamine · French
gamine · rank #9,487 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,487
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gala
Nearest frequency peer: gala (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gamine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fo
fo
90,517 corpus weight
- formellement
formellement
90,516 corpus weight
- gala
gala
90,515 corpus weight
- gamine
gamine
90,514 corpus weight
- gares
gares
90,513 corpus weight
- got
got
90,512 corpus weight
What this shows « gamine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.min\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gamine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gamine (IPA \ɡa.min\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,487 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gamine, with forms such as "agmine", "gaimne", and "gamien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gamme", "Gavin", "gamins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gamine, spelled G-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Enfant pauvre qui vit dans les rues.
- 2Petite fille. — Note d’usage : Il se dit en particulier des enfants qui passent leur temps à jouer dans les rues.
- 3Fille espiègle et hardie. Il s’emploie souvent en mauvaise part.
- 4Femme notablement plus jeune par rapport à une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gamine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mêmes les gamines grandelettes peuvent prier en se rendant à l'école et au retour : ça leur fera oublier les prônes du maître d’école, ce suppôt de Satan-là.
Par contre, la grande gueule, celui qui balance les « krèles », je le connais. Il tape sa petite sœur. La gamine a déjà fait trois séjours à l’hosto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agmine
- gaimne
- gamien
- gaminne
- gammine
- gamnie
- ggamine
- gmaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gamine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).