gus
\ɡys\
The verdict
“gus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,148) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,148
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gars ; mec ; quidam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gus · gus · French
gus · rank #17,148 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,148
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guardian
Nearest frequency peer: guardian (-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 « gus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gland
gland
82,856 corpus weight
- gouvernemen…
gouvernementaux
82,855 corpus weight
- guardian
guardian
82,854 corpus weight
- gus
gus
82,853 corpus weight
- Hallyday
Hallyday
82,852 corpus weight
- ham
ham
82,851 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gus » 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 | gus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡys\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gus is neighbouring look-alikes ("GW", "gx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡys\. Frequency #17,148 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Gars ; mec ; quidam.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GW", "gx", "guy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gus, spelled G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Gars ; mec ; quidam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est fou le nombre de gus qu’étaient faits pour vivre jusqu’à cent piges et qui sont morts avant !
Le commissaire continue : « Jacques et l'Ours ont serré un des deux gus au niveau de la sous-préf, poursuit le commissaire. L'autre a réussi à descendre sur le port de commerce et, là, on a perdu sa trace.
This word in other languages
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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