gallop
/ˈɡæləp/
"gallop" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gallop” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,850
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gallop · gallop · English
gallop · rank #27,850 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,850
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaia
Nearest frequency peer: Gaia (-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 “gallop”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fullness
fullness
72,155 corpus weight
- furthering
furthering
72,154 corpus weight
- Gaia
Gaia
72,152 corpus weight
- gallop
gallop
72,151 corpus weight
- gentile
gentile
72,150 corpus weight
- gentrificat…
gentrification
72,149 corpus weight
What this shows “gallop” 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 | gallop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæləp/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gallop”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gallop (IPA /ˈɡæləp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,850 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gallop, with forms such as "agllop", "gallopp", and "gallpo". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Gallup", "gallows", "gall", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-In… The correct English form is gallop, spelled G-A-L-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
- 2An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
- 3An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
- 4A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gallop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn t…
A gallop rhythm: \drums{\repeat unfold4{wbl8wbh16 16
Etymology
From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agllop
- gallopp
- gallpo
- galolp
- galop
- ggallop
- glalop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gallop - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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