gum
\gum\
The verdict
“gum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,442) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,442
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lampe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gum · gum · French
gum · rank #17,442 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,442
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grâces
Nearest frequency peer: grâces (-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 « gum »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gravée
gravée
82,562 corpus weight
- Greenpeace
Greenpeace
82,561 corpus weight
- grâces
grâces
82,560 corpus weight
- gum
gum
82,559 corpus weight
- guérilla
guérilla
82,558 corpus weight
- génétiqueme…
génétiquement
82,556 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gum » 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 | gum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \gum\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gum »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gum is neighbouring look-alikes ("GW", "gx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \gum\. Frequency #17,442 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Lampe.".
gum has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GW", "gx", "guy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gum, spelled G-U-M.
Definition
- 1Lampe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Va gum turunká.
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).