Gass
The verdict
“Gass” is uncommon French (frequency #93,808 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,808
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gass · Gass · French
Gass · rank #93,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,808
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gasp
Nearest frequency peer: gasp (-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 « Gass »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garderaient
garderaient
6,197 corpus weight
- garez
garez
6,196 corpus weight
- gasp
gasp
6,194 corpus weight
- Gass
Gass
6,193 corpus weight
- gendarmeries
gendarmeries
6,190 corpus weight
- Gergovie
Gergovie
6,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gass » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gass » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gass is uncommon French at frequency #93,808 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gass, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gass, spelled G-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le traiteur Thierry Laurent, toujours présent, a changé d’emplacement sans perdre sa bonne humeur et Fabrice Gass, spécialiste des produits de la mer, propose en plus des éclades de moules.
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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