gate
\ɡɛt\
The verdict
“gate” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,298
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de grille, électrode de commande des dispositifs à effet de champ. Cette électrode joue un effet analogue à celle de la grille d'un tube électronique, qui est de restreindre en fonction du...
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Index FR-gate · gate · French
gate · rank #19,298 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,298
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gainsbourg
Nearest frequency peer: Gainsbourg (-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 « gate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- furieuse
furieuse
80,706 corpus weight
- fœtus
fœtus
80,705 corpus weight
- Gainsbourg
Gainsbourg
80,704 corpus weight
- gate
gate
80,703 corpus weight
- gestation
gestation
80,702 corpus weight
- Gibson
Gibson
80,701 corpus weight
What this shows « gate » 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 | gate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gate (IPA \ɡɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,298 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Synonyme de grille, électrode de commande des dispositifs à effet de champ. Cette électrode joue un effet analogue à celle de la grille d'un tube électronique, qui est de restreindre en fonction du...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gate, with forms such as "agte", "gaet", and "gatte". 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, "GT", "gré", "get", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gate, spelled G-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de grille, électrode de commande des dispositifs à effet de champ. Cette électrode joue un effet analogue à celle de la grille d'un tube électronique, qui est de restreindre en fonction du potentiel qui lui est appliqué la zone dans laquelle les porteurs de charge peuvent circuler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agte
- gaet
- gatte
- ggate
- gtae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gate - 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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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).