gault
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡolt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Mot 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"
Frequency rank: #42,901 in French
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