gastrite
\ɡas.tʁit\
The verdict
“gastrite” is uncommon French (frequency #87,671 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,671
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inflammation aiguë ou chronique de la muqueuse de l’estomac.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gastrite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡas.tʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gastrite” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gastrite is uncommon French at frequency #87,671 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡas.tʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation aiguë ou chronique de la muqueuse de l’estomac.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gastrite, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gastrite, spelled G-A-S-T-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation aiguë ou chronique de la muqueuse de l’estomac.
This word in other languages
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 “gastrite”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-S-T-R-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡas.tʁit\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.