GSM
\ʒe.ɛs.ɛm\
The verdict
“GSM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,670) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,670
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téléphone mobile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gsm · GSM · French
GSM · rank #25,670 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,670
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimpé
Nearest frequency peer: grimpé (-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 « GSM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gobelet
gobelet
74,334 corpus weight
- gourmandise
gourmandise
74,333 corpus weight
- grimpé
grimpé
74,332 corpus weight
- GSM
GSM
74,331 corpus weight
- générée
générée
74,330 corpus weight
- gênante
gênante
74,329 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « GSM » 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 | GSM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ɛs.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « GSM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GSM is neighbouring look-alikes ("GT", "GW", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʒe.ɛs.ɛm\. Frequency #25,670 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Téléphone mobile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for GSM in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GT", "GW", "gx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is GSM, spelled G-S-M.
Definition
- 1Téléphone mobile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GSM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne peut même pas la joindre sur son GSM, déplore Josette. Quand je pense que je lui en avais offert un beau avec des touches lumineuses !
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).