go
\ɡo\
The verdict
“go” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,718) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,718
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de stratégie d’origine chinoise et qui se joue à deux joueurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-go · go · French
go · rank #2,718 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,718
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH feuilles
Nearest frequency peer: feuilles (-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 « go »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- experts
experts
97,286 corpus weight
- fan
fan
97,285 corpus weight
- feuilles
feuilles
97,284 corpus weight
- go
go
97,283 corpus weight
- individu
individu
97,281 corpus weight
- intelligence
intelligence
97,280 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « go » 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 | go |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « go »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for go is neighbouring look-alikes ("GR", "GT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡo\. Frequency #2,718 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Jeu de stratégie d’origine chinoise et qui se joue à deux joueurs.".
go has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GR", "GT", "GP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is go, spelled G-O.
Definition
- 1Jeu de stratégie d’origine chinoise et qui se joue à deux joueurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how go appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il s’est mis à expliquer les règles du go. C’était n’importe quoi. Et d’une, ce sont les Chinois qui ont inventé le go. Je le sais parce que j’ai lu le manga culte sur le go ; ça s’appelle Hikaru No go. Et de deux, ce n’est pas un équivalent japonais des échecs.
Synonyms
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.