got
\ɡɒt\
The verdict
“got” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,489) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,489
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé du verbe get.
Corpus desk
Index FR-got · got · French
got · rank #9,489 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,489
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gares
Nearest frequency peer: gares (-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 « got »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gala
gala
90,515 corpus weight
- gamine
gamine
90,514 corpus weight
- gares
gares
90,513 corpus weight
- got
got
90,512 corpus weight
- géométrie
géométrie
90,511 corpus weight
- handicapés
handicapés
90,510 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « got » 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 | got |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɒt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « got »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for got is neighbouring look-alikes ("GR", "GT", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ɡɒt\. Frequency #9,489 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for got, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is got, spelled G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Passé du verbe get.
- 2Participe passé du verbe get.
- 3Avoir.
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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