ges

pron

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The verdict

“ges” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,144) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#17,144
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de ge les (« je les »).

Corpus desk

Index FR-ges · ges · French

ges · rank #17,144 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,144
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH Galilée

Nearest frequency peer: Galilée (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ges »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « ges » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ges vs go
33% similar
ges vs GR
0% similar
ges vs GT
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ges
PropertyValue
Headwordges
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#17,144
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ges »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Galilée » (#17,143), « gland » (#17,145), « Fréjus » (#17,142). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « ges » est au #17,144. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ges is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #17,144 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Contraction de ge les (« je les »).".

ges has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ges, spelled G-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contraction de ge les (« je les »).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais se Deu plaist ges ferai desnichier.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ges"?
"ges" is spelled G-E-S.
What does "ges" mean?
As a pronoun, "ges" means: Contraction de ge les (« je les »).
What words are commonly confused with "ges"?
"ges" is commonly confused with "go", "GR", "GT". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ges" come from?
"ges" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ges", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gus#17,148ham#17,150fed#17,134mie#17,190

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list