gel
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,961
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Solidification de l’eau en glace. Pronounced \ʒɛl\. It ranks #6,961 in French word frequency. Often confused with go and GR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gel is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,961 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", 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 gel, spelled G-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solidification de l’eau en glace.
- 2Température en dessous de zéro degré Celsius.
- 3Solution colloïdale qui est surtout liquide paraissant un solide.
- 4Arrêt.
- 5Gel permettant de fixer les cheveux.
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Frequency rank: #6,961 in French
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