gasp
\ɡasp\
The verdict
“gasp” is uncommon French (frequency #93,807 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,807
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de respiration agonique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gasp · gasp · French
gasp · rank #93,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,807
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gass
Nearest frequency peer: Gass (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gasp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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gaon
6,198 corpus weight
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garderaient
6,197 corpus weight
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garez
6,196 corpus weight
- gasp
gasp
6,194 corpus weight
- Gass
Gass
6,193 corpus weight
- gendarmeries
gendarmeries
6,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gasp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gasp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡasp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gasp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gasp is uncommon French at frequency #93,807 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡasp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de respiration agonique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gasp in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gasp, spelled G-A-S-P.
Definition
- 1État de respiration agonique.
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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