gh
\d͡ʒo\
The verdict
“gh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,786) as a typographic variant. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,786
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĝ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gh · gh · French
gh · rank #46,786 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,786
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gets
Nearest frequency peer: gets (-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 « gh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gallon
gallon
53,218 corpus weight
- gallons
gallons
53,217 corpus weight
- gets
gets
53,216 corpus weight
- gh
gh
53,215 corpus weight
- Gilly
Gilly
53,214 corpus weight
- gimp
gimp
53,213 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gh » 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 | gh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \d͡ʒo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #46,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gh is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is atypographic variant pronounced \d͡ʒo\. Frequency #46,786 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĝ.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gh in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gh, spelled G-H.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de ĝ.
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.