gom
\gɔm\
The verdict
“gom” is uncommon French (frequency #94,848 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,848
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonnet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gom · gom · French
gom · rank #94,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,848
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Goldmann
Nearest frequency peer: Goldmann (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gnosticisme
gnosticisme
5,156 corpus weight
- goddess
goddess
5,155 corpus weight
- Goldmann
Goldmann
5,154 corpus weight
- gom
gom
5,153 corpus weight
- goody
goody
5,152 corpus weight
- goure
goure
5,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \gɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gom is uncommon French at frequency #94,848 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \gɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bonnet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gom, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gom, spelled G-O-M.
Definition
- 1Bonnet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Batse gom jinon vooken ugale tiyí sandaf.
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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