Gin
[d͡ʒɪn]
The verdict
“Gin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,224) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,224
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gin · Gin · French
Gin · rank #24,224 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,224
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gerry
Nearest frequency peer: Gerry (-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 « Gin »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Gbagbo
Gbagbo
75,780 corpus weight
- Gent
Gent
75,779 corpus weight
- Gerry
Gerry
75,778 corpus weight
- Gin
Gin
75,777 corpus weight
- gitans
gitans
75,776 corpus weight
- glucides
glucides
75,775 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Gin » 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 | Gin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d͡ʒɪn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Gin »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gin is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [d͡ʒɪn]. Frequency #24,224 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Gin.".
Gin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Gin, spelled G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Gin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gin wird aus beliebigen stärkehaltigen Ausgangsstoffen gebrannt, meist Getreide oder Melasse.
Synonyms
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).