gamme de couleurs
\ɡam də ku.lœʁ\
The verdict
“gamme de couleurs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Succession ordonnée de plages de teintes de différentes nuances et de différentes couleurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamme de couleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡam də ku.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gamme de couleurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamme de couleurs is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡam də ku.lœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gamme de couleurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de couleurs, spelled G-A-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-L-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Succession ordonnée de plages de teintes de différentes nuances et de différentes couleurs.
- 2Ensemble des nuances de couleurs disponible sur un équipement audiovisuel ou informatique.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-L-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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