Galois
/ɡælwɑ/
"galois" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Galois” is uncommon English (frequency #79,534 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,534
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-galois · Galois · English
Galois · rank #79,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,534
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaetz
Nearest frequency peer: Gaetz (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Galois”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fusilier
fusilier
20,471 corpus weight
- Gaetz
Gaetz
20,468 corpus weight
- Galois
Galois
20,467 corpus weight
- gaskin
gaskin
20,466 corpus weight
- gasworks
gasworks
20,464 corpus weight
- gauchos
gauchos
20,463 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Galois” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Galois |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɡælwɑ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Galois” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Galois is uncommon English at frequency #79,534 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɡælwɑ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Galois doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Galois, spelled G-A-L-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
- 2French mathematician Évariste Galois
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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