gazier
\ɡa.zje\
The verdict
“gazier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,904
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’industrie du gaz naturel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gazier · gazier · French
gazier · rank #42,904 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,904
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gauvain
Nearest frequency peer: Gauvain (-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 « gazier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gault
gault
57,100 corpus weight
- gauss
gauss
57,099 corpus weight
- Gauvain
Gauvain
57,098 corpus weight
- gazier
gazier
57,097 corpus weight
- gentillement
gentillement
57,096 corpus weight
- gerbes
gerbes
57,095 corpus weight
What this shows « gazier » 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 | gazier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡa.zje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gazier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gazier (IPA \ɡa.zje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,904 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’industrie du gaz naturel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gazier, with forms such as "agzier", "gaizer", and "gazeir". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gibier", "gosier", "glacier", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gazier, spelled G-A-Z-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’industrie du gaz naturel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gazier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le géant gazier russe Gazprom a annoncé, samedi, avoir suspendu ses livraisons de gaz à la Lettonie, sur fond de tensions russo-occidentales en raison du conflit en Ukraine et des sanctions européennes sans précédent contre la Russie.
Ils blâment en particulier l’entreprise pour continuer, d’une part, de mener ou de lancer des projets pétroliers et gaziers et pour refuser, d’autre part, d’aligner sa stratégie sur l’objectif de l’Accord de Paris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agzier
- gaizer
- gazeir
- gazierr
- gazire
- gazzier
- ggazier
- gzaier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gazier - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gazier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).