gaucher
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,718
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
gaucher is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se sert habituellement de la main gauche au lieu de la main droite. Pronounced \ɡo.ʃe\. Often confused with gaucho and Gautier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɡo.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gaucher is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡo.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,718 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaucher, with forms such as "agucher", "gacuher", and "gauccher". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "gaucho", "Gautier", "gauchos", 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 gaucher, spelled G-A-U-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se sert habituellement de la main gauche au lieu de la main droite.
- 2Qualifie un poisson plat dont les yeux sont disposés à gauche.
- 3Qualifie une coquille à enroulement sénestre.
- 4Se dit d'un cheval de course qui tourne facilement à gauche, qui est plus à l'aise corde à gauche que corde à droite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agucher,gacuher,gauccher,gaucehr,gaucherr,gauchher,gauchre,gauhcer,ggaucher,guacher
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Misspelling Variants of "gaucher"
Frequency rank: #17,718 in French
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