Gabor
"gabor" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gabor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,346
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Hungarian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gabor · Gabor · English
Gabor · rank #49,346 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH futon
Nearest frequency peer: futon (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Gabor”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- furtherance
furtherance
50,657 corpus weight
- futon
futon
50,656 corpus weight
- Gabor
Gabor
50,655 corpus weight
- Gabriele
Gabriele
50,654 corpus weight
- gangland
gangland
50,653 corpus weight
- gating
gating
50,652 corpus weight
What this shows “Gabor” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Gabor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Gabor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gabor, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,346 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Hungarian.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gabor, with forms such as "agbor", "gabbor", and "gaborr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "GAO", "gar", "gor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowing from Hungarian Gábor. The correct English form is Gabor, spelled G-A-B-O-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from Hungarian.
Etymology
Borrowing from Hungarian Gábor.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agbor
- gabbor
- gaborr
- gabro
- gaobr
- gbaor
- ggabor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gabor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gabor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).