gamesvsgesTell them apart

Quick tell: games is a noun, ges is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“games” is a noun and “ges” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,834
“games” frequency rank
#17,144
“ges” frequency rank
24978
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature games ges
Definition Pluriel de game. Contraction de ge les (« je les »).

Letter map: games vs ges

Shared letters muted; letters that set games and ges apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
games
3 ch
ges

Part-of-speech tell for games / ges

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: games is anoun and gesapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24978, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

games is recorded at frequency rank #7,834, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡɛm\. ges is at rank #17,144, tagged as apron.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 24978, this pair ranks #343,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of games vs ges

Shared letters: egs. Private to "games": am. Private to "ges": -.

"games" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "ges" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gamesagmes · gaems · gamess · gamse · ggames · gmaes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "games" and "ges" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "games" is a noun and "ges" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "games" or "ges"?
"games" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,834 in our French list, against #17,144 for "ges". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "games" and "ges". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "games" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ges" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #343,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "games" and "ges" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ges vs gx". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #343,479 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list