gaze
\ɡaz\
The verdict
“gaze” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,079
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe légère et transparente, faite de soie ou de fil d’or, ou d’argent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaze · gaze · French
gaze · rank #27,079 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,079
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garagiste
Nearest frequency peer: garagiste (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaze »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gambie
Gambie
72,925 corpus weight
- gamines
gamines
72,924 corpus weight
- garagiste
garagiste
72,923 corpus weight
- gaze
gaze
72,922 corpus weight
- Gigi
Gigi
72,921 corpus weight
- gobelins
gobelins
72,920 corpus weight
What this shows « gaze » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaze »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gaze (IPA \ɡaz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,079 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaze, with forms such as "agze", "gaez", and "gazze". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "gué", "gee", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaze, spelled G-A-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Étoffe légère et transparente, faite de soie ou de fil d’or, ou d’argent.
- 2Sorte de tissu de coton destiné aux pansements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais elle ne portait de ces insipides robes de gaze qui laissent tout voir et ne font rien deviner.
Il appuya sa tête livide sur l’épaule de la jeune femme, et ses doigts crispés se cramponnèrent, en la déchirant, à la fine batiste brodée qui couvrait d’un flot de gaze le corps de Marguerite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agze
- gaez
- gazze
- ggaze
- gzae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaze - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).