Gaon
/ɡəˈ(ʔ)oʊn/
"gaon" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gaon” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,935
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia
Corpus desk
Index EN-gaon · Gaon · English
Gaon · rank #37,935 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,935
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Frans
Nearest frequency peer: Frans (-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 “Gaon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- foetus
foetus
62,069 corpus weight
- forthright
forthright
62,068 corpus weight
- Frans
Frans
62,067 corpus weight
- Gaon
Gaon
62,066 corpus weight
- Gaylord
Gaylord
62,065 corpus weight
- geisha
geisha
62,064 corpus weight
What this shows “Gaon” 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 | Gaon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡəˈ(ʔ)oʊn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Gaon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Gaon (IPA /ɡəˈ(ʔ)oʊn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,935 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gaon, with forms such as "agon", "gano", and "gaonn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "got", "god", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew גָּאוֹן (ga'ón, “grandeur, majesty, genius”). The correct English form is Gaon, spelled G-A-O-N.
Definition
- 1A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gaon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.
Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.
Etymology
From Hebrew גָּאוֹן (ga'ón, “grandeur, majesty, genius”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agon
- gano
- gaonn
- ggaon
- goan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gaon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).