gaminet
\ɡa.mi.nɛ\
The verdict
“gaminet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de maillot, souvent de cotonnade légère, à manches courtes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaminet · gaminet · French
gaminet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaminet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.mi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaminet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaminet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.mi.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de maillot, souvent de cotonnade légère, à manches courtes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gaminet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gaminet, spelled G-A-M-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de maillot, souvent de cotonnade légère, à manches courtes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaminet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle chaparde le gaminet léger, qu’il a retiré pour jouer avec eux sous le gicleur, tourne le dos aux autres, le plie furtivement et le dissimule dans son sac de plage à fleurs qu’elle s’enchâsse ensuite sur l’épaule.
Afin de souligner le 25ᵉ anniversaire de l’ASTED, nous avions des « gaminets » (t-shirts) conçus spécialement pour la circonstance et sur lesquels nous avions fait imprimer un extrait de la fresque « La connaissance » d’Alfred Pellan […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.