Gex
\ʒɛks\
The verdict
“Gex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,960) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,960
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Ain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gex · Gex · French
Gex · rank #43,960 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,960
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH generali
Nearest frequency peer: generali (-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 « Gex »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- garnies
garnies
56,043 corpus weight
- generali
generali
56,042 corpus weight
- Gex
Gex
56,041 corpus weight
- Giulio
Giulio
56,040 corpus weight
- glissa
glissa
56,039 corpus weight
- graduel
graduel
56,038 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Gex » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Gex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Gex »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gex is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ʒɛks\. Frequency #43,960 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gex in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gex, spelled G-E-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Ain.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Ain.
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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