gaves
\ɡav\
The verdict
“gaves” is uncommon French (frequency #76,610 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,610
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaves · gaves · French
gaves · rank #76,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,610
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gazettes
Nearest frequency peer: gazettes (+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 « gaves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garnement
garnement
23,396 corpus weight
- gaspacho
gaspacho
23,395 corpus weight
- gaudium
gaudium
23,393 corpus weight
- gaves
gaves
23,391 corpus weight
- gazettes
gazettes
23,390 corpus weight
- gazons
gazons
23,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡav\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaves is uncommon French at frequency #76,610 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gave.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gaves in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gaves, spelled G-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Et ses chatoiements délicats, Près des gaves aux sourds fracas, Font luire de petits micas […]
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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