gare
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,953
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gare is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tronçon de voie fluviale aménagée pour faciliter la circulation et la protection des navires. Pronounced \ɡaʁ\. It ranks #1,953 in French word frequency. Often confused with GR and gré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gare is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,953 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gare, with forms such as "agre", "gaer", and "garre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GR", "gré", "Gas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 gare, spelled G-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tronçon de voie fluviale aménagée pour faciliter la circulation et la protection des navires.
- 2Ensemble des installations et bâtiments établis à chaque station des lignes de chemin de fer.
- 3Ensemble des installations et bâtiments établis à chaque station des lignes de chemin de fer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agre,gaer,garre,ggare,grae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gare
Misspelling Variants of "gare"
Frequency rank: #1,953 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: