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The verdict

“gj” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,916) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#47,916
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beau travail, bien joué.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gj · gj · French

gj · rank #47,916 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,916
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gicler

Nearest frequency peer: gicler (-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 « gj »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « gj » 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).

gj vs go
50% similar
gj vs GR
0% similar
gj vs GT
0% similar

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

Key facts for gj
PropertyValue
Headwordgj
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
Letters2
Frequency rank#47,916
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gj »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gjse 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 « gicler » (#47,915), « gladiator » (#47,917), « germanophone » (#47,914). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gj » est au #47,916. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for gj is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #47,916 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Beau travail, bien joué.".

gj doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gj, spelled G-J.

Definition

  1. 1
    Beau travail, bien joué.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gj"?
"gj" is spelled G-J.
What does "gj" mean?
As an interjection, "gj" means: Beau travail, bien joué.
What words are commonly confused with "gj"?
"gj" 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 "gj" come from?
"gj" 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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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list