gâter
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,031
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gâter is aFrenchverb. It means: Endommager, mettre en mauvais état, abîmer en donnant une mauvaise forme ou autrement. Pronounced \ɡɑ.te\. Often confused with ger and gave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gâter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɑ.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gâter is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɑ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,031 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gâter, with forms such as "gater", "ggâter", and "gtâer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ger", "gave", "gîte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gâter, spelled G-Â-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endommager, mettre en mauvais état, abîmer en donnant une mauvaise forme ou autrement.
- 2Salir, tacher.
- 3Corrompre, dépraver, dévoyer.
- 4Encourager, entretenir quelqu’un dans ses défauts, dans ses vices par trop d’indulgence, de complaisance.
- 5Donner beaucoup de cadeaux à quelqu’un.
- 6Se corrompre.
- 7Se dit, en parlant des changements de bien en mal, de la dépravation des mœurs, du goût.
- 8Commencer à devenir mauvais, en parlant du temps, du climat.
- 9Commencer à prendre une fâcheuse tournure, en parlant des choses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gater,ggâter,gtâer,gâetr,gâterr,gâtre,gâtter,âgter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gâter
Misspelling Variants of "gâter"
Frequency rank: #26,031 in French
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