gorge

/\ɡɔʁʒ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,614

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gorge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie antérieure du cou de l’homme ou de l’animal. Pronounced \ɡɔʁʒ\. It ranks #3,614 in French word frequency. Often confused with gré and grue.

Key facts for gorge
PropertyValue
Headwordgorge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɔʁʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,614
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gorge in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gorge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔʁʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,614 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 25 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gorge, with forms such as "ggorge", "gogre", and "goreg". 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, "gré", "grue", "gosse", 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 gorge, spelled G-O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie antérieure du cou de l’homme ou de l’animal.
  2. 2
    Gosier, le dedans de la gorge.
  3. 3
    Voix de la gorge.
  4. 4
    Siège de la voix.
  5. 5
    Sachet supérieur de l’oiseau, qui se nomme vulgairement poche.
  6. 6
    Ce qui entre dans la gorge de l’oiseau, l’aliment qu’on lui donne.
  7. 7
    Partie supérieure de la chemise d’une femme.
  8. 8
    Les seins.
  9. 9
    Entrée, ouverture, orifice plus ou moins rétrécie de certaines choses.
  10. 10
    Entrée, ouverture, orifice plus ou moins rétrécie de certaines choses.
  11. 11
    Entrée, ouverture, orifice plus ou moins rétrécie de certaines choses.
  12. 12
    Pièce mobile de certaines serrures, dont le déplacement sous l’effet d’un cran de la clé libère le déplacement du pêne.
  13. 13
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  14. 14
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  15. 15
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  16. 16
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  17. 17
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  18. 18
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  19. 19
    Étranglement, rétrécissement de certaines choses.
  20. 20
    Passage étroit entre deux montagnes.
  21. 21
    Épaisseur d’un cordon de soudure d’angle, en général notée a.
  22. 22
    Moulure concave, cannelure, creux demi-circulaire.
  23. 23
    Échancrure au bassin à barbe, dans laquelle on met le cou pour se faire faire la barbe.
  24. 24
    Bâton de bois qu’on place au bas d’une carte de géographie, d’une estampe pour la maintenir tendue, et dans laquelle se loge la carte quand elle a été mise en cylindre sur son rouleau.
  25. 25
    Dans les environs de Paris, froment qui reste dans les gerbes après qu’on en a ôté la semence par un léger battage.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggorge,gogre,goreg,gorgge,gorrge,groge,ogrge

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gorge

Misspelling Variants of "gorge"

ggorge6gogre5goreg5gorgge6gorrge6groge5ogrge5
Misspelling Variants of "gorge"

Frequency rank: #3,614 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gorge"?
"gorge" is spelled G-O-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɔʁʒ\.
What does "gorge" mean?
As a noun, "gorge" means: Partie antérieure du cou de l’homme ou de l’animal.
What words are commonly confused with "gorge"?
"gorge" is commonly confused with "gré", "grue", "gosse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gorge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gorge" is \ɡɔʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gorge" come from?
"gorge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.