gomme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,802
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gomme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exsudat végétal riche en polysaccharides, sécrété naturellement ou à la suite d’une blessure par certains arbres, notamment des légumineuses, et utilisé comme épaississant, émulsifiant ou liant dan... Pronounced \ɡɔm\. Often confused with gore and gone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gomme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gomme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,802 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gomme, with forms such as "ggomme", "gmome", and "gome". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gone", "gorge", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gomme, spelled G-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exsudat végétal riche en polysaccharides, sécrété naturellement ou à la suite d’une blessure par certains arbres, notamment des légumineuses, et utilisé comme épaississant, émulsifiant ou liant dans des préparations alimentaires, pharmaceutiques ou industrielles.
- 2Bloc de caoutchouc ou de matière synthétique qui sert à effacer.
- 3Gomme à mâcher, chewing-gum.
- 4Matière adhésive se trouvant au dos des timbres ou des enveloppes et qui permet de les coller, le plus souvent après l’avoir humectée.
- 5Maladie de certaines plantes, notamment les arbres fruitiers, qui se traduit par une ulcération de l’écorce.
- 6Tumeur qui vient aux os et au périoste.
- 7Bateau pneumatique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggomme,gmome,gome,gomem,ogmme
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Misspelling Variants of "gomme"
Frequency rank: #13,802 in French
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