gouge
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5 characters
Language
French
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gouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil de fer, fait en forme de demi-canal, avec un manche de bois, à l’usage de différentes professions: sculpteurs, tourneurs, plombiers, menuisiers, charpentiers, jardiniers […]. Pronounced \ɡuʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for gouge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gouge in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 gouge, spelled G-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Outil de fer, fait en forme de demi-canal, avec un manche de bois, à l’usage de différentes professions: sculpteurs, tourneurs, plombiers, menuisiers, charpentiers, jardiniers […].
- 2Tranchet courbe pour creuser les talons des souliers.
- 3Outil pour couper l’excédant des tuiles molles dont on construit le four du glacier.
- 4Ciseau à tranchant demi-circulaire employé pour l’ablation des exostoses.
- 5On met deux gouges à tous les ressorts d’une serrure, pour les faire sortir autant qu’on le désire.
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