gants

\ɡɑ̃\

/\ɡɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“gants” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,699
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gants · gants · French

gants · rank #7,699 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,699
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH full

Nearest frequency peer: full (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gants »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gants » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gants vs Gas
40% similar
gants vs gens
60% similar
gants vs gars
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gants
PropertyValue
Headwordgants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɑ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,699
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gants »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gantsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « full » (#7,698), « Gary » (#7,700), « frites » (#7,697). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gants » est au #7,699. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around gants (IPA \ɡɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,699 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gants, with forms such as "agnts", "gannts", and "ganst". 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, "Gas", "gens", "gars", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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. The correct French form is gants, spelled G-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de gant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais l’opérateur, lui, absorbe les rayons égarés — et ils sont nombreux — tout le jour et tous les jours ; il n’a encore que des moyens bien infidèles de protection : on lui a fait des lunettes, des gants, de grands tabliers où le plomb entre en plus ou moins grande quantité et arrête les rayons au passage, souvent, des fissures se produisent, ou, ces acc…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agnts
  • gannts
  • ganst
  • gantss
  • gantts
  • gatns
  • ggants
  • gnats

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gants - 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.

agnts2gannts1ganst2gantss1gantts1gatns2ggants1gnats2
Edit distance from "gants"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gants"?
"gants" is spelled G-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɑ̃\.
What does "gants" mean?
As a noun, "gants" means: Pluriel de gant.
What words are commonly confused with "gants"?
"gants" is commonly confused with "Gas", "gens", "gars". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gants" is \ɡɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gants" come from?
"gants" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

finie#7,695grant#7,703fines#7,694ennui#7,686

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

mouton8 variantschoque8 variantspluies8 variantsappelez8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list