gant de boxe
\ɡɑ̃ də bɔks\
The verdict
“gant de boxe” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Gant obligatoire pour frapper son adversaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gant de boxe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃ də bɔks\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gant de boxe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gant de boxe is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɑ̃ də bɔks\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gant obligatoire pour frapper son adversaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gant de boxe 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 gant de boxe, spelled G-A-N-T- -D-E- -B-O-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gant obligatoire pour frapper son adversaire.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-N-T- -D-E- -B-O-X-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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