Gascogne
\ɡas.kɔɲ\
The verdict
“Gascogne” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #23,564 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #23,564
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne province française.
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 | Gascogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡas.kɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gascogne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Gascogne is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡas.kɔɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,564 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ancienne province française.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gascogne, with forms such as "agscogne", "gacsogne", and "gasccogne". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gascon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gascogne, spelled G-A-S-C-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne province française.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agscogne,gacsogne,gasccogne,gascgone,gascogen,gascoggne,gascognne,gasconge,gasocgne,gasscogne,ggascogne,gsacogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gascogne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Gascogne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-S-C-O-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡas.kɔɲ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gascon” - see the side-by-side comparison. Gascogne vs gascon
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.