gap
\ɡap\
The verdict
“gap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,684) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,684
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans un solide, différence d’énergie entre la bande de conduction et la bande de valence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gap · gap · French
gap · rank #14,684 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,684
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH galères
Nearest frequency peer: galères (-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 « gap »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gagnera
gagnera
85,320 corpus weight
- gallo
gallo
85,319 corpus weight
- galères
galères
85,318 corpus weight
- gap
gap
85,317 corpus weight
- gibier
gibier
85,315 corpus weight
- granit
granit
85,314 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gap » 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 | gap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gap »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gap is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡap\. Frequency #14,684 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gap in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 gap, spelled G-A-P.
Definition
- 1Dans un solide, différence d’énergie entre la bande de conduction et la bande de valence.
- 2Écart très grand entre deux choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Il y a aujourd’hui un gap entre les grands projets qui ne seront pas tous opérationnels immédiatement et les petits projets locaux à base de kits solaires dans les zones plus reculées, et c’est ce gap que viennent combler les énergies fossiles », a ajouté Thierry Barbaut, directeur Stratégie Numérique à l’Agence des Micro Projets, contributeur pour l’In…
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).