gare
\ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“gare” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,953
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tronçon de voie fluviale aménagée pour faciliter la circulation et la protection des navires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gare · gare · French
gare · rank #1,953 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,953
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH estime
Nearest frequency peer: estime (-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 « gare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- défaut
défaut
98,051 corpus weight
- enfance
enfance
98,050 corpus weight
- estime
estime
98,049 corpus weight
- gare
gare
98,048 corpus weight
- glace
glace
98,047 corpus weight
- hommage
hommage
98,046 corpus weight
What this shows « gare » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gare (IPA \ɡaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,953 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gare, with forms such as "agre", "gaer", and "garre". 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, "GR", "gré", "Gas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gare, spelled G-A-R-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le particulier qui ouvre une gare au public s'oblige par la même à défendre les bateaux qui viennent s'y abriter, …
Quelquefois, lorsque j’arrive, je préviens qu’on envoie une voiture me chercher à la gare ; souvent je ne préviens pas […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agre
- gaer
- garre
- ggare
- grae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gare - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).