gar
\ɡaːɐ̯\
The verdict
“gar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,510) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,510
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assez cuit, bien cuit, à point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gar · gar · French
gar · rank #31,510 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,510
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Garfield
Nearest frequency peer: Garfield (+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 « gar »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- frêle
frêle
68,496 corpus weight
- gar
gar
68,491 corpus weight
- Garfield
Garfield
68,490 corpus weight
- garnisons
garnisons
68,489 corpus weight
- garous
garous
68,488 corpus weight
- Gayet
Gayet
68,487 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gar » 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 | gar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡaːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gar »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gar is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɡaːɐ̯\. Frequency #31,510 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Assez cuit, bien cuit, à point.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 gar, spelled G-A-R.
Definition
- 1Assez cuit, bien cuit, à point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Braten ist gar.
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).