gemme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,963
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gemme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pierre fine, pierre précieuse, pierre ornementale ou synthétique répondant à des critères de dureté, d’éclat, de couleur et de transparence. Pronounced \ʒɛm\. Often confused with gène and gere.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gemme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gemme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,963 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gemme, with forms such as "egmme", "geme", and "gemem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gène", "gere", "genre", 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 gemme, spelled G-E-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pierre fine, pierre précieuse, pierre ornementale ou synthétique répondant à des critères de dureté, d’éclat, de couleur et de transparence.
- 2Suc résineux du pin recueilli par entaille pratiquée dans le tronc.
- 3Bourgeon.
- 4Excroissance charnue qui se forme sur le corps de certains animaux, tels que les polypes.
- 5Nom donné dans les armoiries à la résine du même nom quand un meuble y fait référence (pin, pot…). Elle est généralement d’argent mais on doit le préciser dans le blasonnement. Ce terme est employé quand la résine est représentée coulante. Elle est alors dite dégoulinante. Elle est figurée sous la forme de coulures. Il y a une sorte de dynamique dans la gemme qui n’apparait pas pour la résine seule (statique, figé).
- 6Artefact dématérialisé vendu dans un but ludique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egmme,geme,gemem,ggemme,gmeme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gemme
Misspelling Variants of "gemme"
Frequency rank: #35,963 in French
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