gamme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,880
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gamme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des sept notes principales de la musique disposées selon leur ordre naturel dans l’intervalle d’une octave. Pronounced \ɡam\. It ranks #2,880 in French word frequency. Often confused with gare and gave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡam\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,880 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for gamme, with forms such as "agmme", "gamem", and "ggamme". 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, "gare", "gave", "gate", 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 gamme, spelled G-A-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des sept notes principales de la musique disposées selon leur ordre naturel dans l’intervalle d’une octave.
- 2Ensemble des sept notes principales de la musique disposées selon leur ordre naturel dans l’intervalle d’une octave.
- 3Ton du langage.
- 4Portée.
- 5Succession de nuances.
- 6Gamut, succession de tons, de couleurs qui s’harmonisent.
- 7Ensemble souvent ordonné d’éléments.
- 8(Par ellipse) : gamme de produits
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agmme,gamem,ggamme,gmame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gamme
Misspelling Variants of "gamme"
Frequency rank: #2,880 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: