gamma
\ɡa.ma\
The verdict
“gamma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,632) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,632
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de γ, Γ, troisième lettre et deuxième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gamma · gamma · French
gamma · rank #21,632 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,632
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fury
Nearest frequency peer: fury (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gamma »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- forget
forget
78,372 corpus weight
- fourgon
fourgon
78,371 corpus weight
- fury
fury
78,370 corpus weight
- gamma
gamma
78,369 corpus weight
- gangster
gangster
78,368 corpus weight
- geler
geler
78,367 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gamma » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | gamma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gamma »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gamma is neighbouring look-alikes ("gaza", "goma", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡa.ma\. Frequency #21,632 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de γ, Γ, troisième lettre et deuxième consonne de l’alphabet grec.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gamma, with forms such as "agmma", "gamam", and "ggamma". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gaza", "goma", "gamme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gamma, spelled G-A-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de γ, Γ, troisième lettre et deuxième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agmma
- gamam
- ggamma
- gmama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gamma - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).