gif
\ʒif\
The verdict
“gif” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,583) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,583
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Image numérique au format GIF.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gif · gif · French
gif · rank #12,583 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,583
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gai
Nearest frequency peer: gai (-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 « gif »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- frappant
frappant
87,421 corpus weight
- frustrant
frustrant
87,420 corpus weight
- gai
gai
87,419 corpus weight
- gif
gif
87,418 corpus weight
- gorges
gorges
87,417 corpus weight
- gothique
gothique
87,416 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gif » 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 | gif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒif\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gif »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gif is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒif\. Frequency #12,583 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Image numérique au format GIF.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gif, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gif, spelled G-I-F.
Definition
- 1Image numérique au format GIF.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cet exercice, nous réaliserons une bannière animée composée de plusieurs images fixes, pour obtenir au final un gif animé. Il suffit de charger les images dans des calques différents et d’enregistrer l’image au format GIF.
Le futur c’est une infinité de liens vers des gifs de chatons mignons, des rediffusions de Docteur Who et des jeux d’argent en ligne.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).