Which to use
“gorge” and “gorgée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,614
- “gorge” frequency rank
- #21,638
- “gorgée” frequency rank
- 25252
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | gorge | gorgée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partie antérieure du cou de l’homme ou de l’animal. | Quantité de liquide que l’on peut avaler en une seule fois. |
Where the eye mixes gorge and gorgée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. gorge runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against gorgée's 6 (CVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between gorge and gorgée
A purely visual mix-up. gorge (\ɡɔʁʒ\) and gorgée (\ɡɔʁ.ʒe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25252, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
gorge is recorded at frequency rank #3,614, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡɔʁʒ\. gorgée is at rank #21,638, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡɔʁ.ʒe\.
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 25252, this pair ranks #341,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of gorge vs gorgée
Shared letters: egor. Private to "gorge": -. Private to "gorgée": é.
"gorge" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "gorgée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- gorge ← ggorge · gogre · goreg · gorgge · gorrge · groge · ogrge
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "gorge" and "gorgée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "gorge" or "gorgée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "gorge" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gorgée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #341,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "gorge" and "gorgée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gorgée vs gorgées". 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 #341,908 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.