gâtez
\ɡɑ.te\
The verdict
“gâtez” is uncommon French (frequency #91,760 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,760
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gâter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gatez · gâtez · French
gâtez · rank #91,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,760
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gélatineuse
Nearest frequency peer: gélatineuse (+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 « gâtez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guilbeault
Guilbeault
8,245 corpus weight
- gâtez
gâtez
8,241 corpus weight
- gélatineuse
gélatineuse
8,240 corpus weight
- géode
géode
8,239 corpus weight
- géostratégi…
géostratégiques
8,238 corpus weight
- gésier
gésier
8,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gâtez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gâtez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɑ.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gâtez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gâtez is uncommon French at frequency #91,760 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡɑ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gâtez, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gâtez, spelled G-Â-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gâter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de gâter.
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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