gault

/\ɡolt\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#42,901

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gault is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mot usité dans quelques comtés d’Angleterre pour désigner une couche de marne bleue qui sépare en deux étages (le supérieur, et l’inférieur ou gault) le grès vert du terrain crétacé. On appelle cet... Pronounced \ɡolt\. Often confused with gut and goût.

Key facts for gault
PropertyValue
Headwordgault
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡolt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#42,901
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gault in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gault is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡolt\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,901 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mot usité dans quelques comtés d’Angleterre pour désigner une couche de marne bleue qui sépare en deux étages (le supérieur, et l’inférieur ou gault) le grès vert du terrain crétacé. On appelle cet...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gault, with forms such as "agult", "galut", and "gaullt". 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, "gut", "goût", "guet", 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 gault, spelled G-A-U-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot usité dans quelques comtés d’Angleterre pour désigner une couche de marne bleue qui sépare en deux étages (le supérieur, et l’inférieur ou gault) le grès vert du terrain crétacé. On appelle cet étage stratigraphique le Gaultien.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agult,galut,gaullt,gaultt,gautl,ggault,gualt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gault

Misspelling Variants of "gault"

agult5galut5gaullt6gaultt6gautl5ggault6gualt5
Misspelling Variants of "gault"

Frequency rank: #42,901 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gault"?
"gault" is spelled G-A-U-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡolt\.
What does "gault" mean?
As a noun, "gault" means: Mot usité dans quelques comtés d’Angleterre pour désigner une couche de marne bleue qui sépare en deux étages (le supérieur, et l’inférieur ou gault) le grès vert du terrain crétacé. On appelle cet...
What words are commonly confused with "gault"?
"gault" is commonly confused with "gut", "goût", "guet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gault"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gault" is \ɡolt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gault" come from?
"gault" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.