gourmet
/ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/
"gourmet" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gourmet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,090
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fine; of superior quality.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourmet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gourmet” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gourmet (IPA /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,090 among 18,276 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fine; of superior quality.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gourmet, with forms such as "ggourmet", "gorumet", and "goumret". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from O… The correct English form is gourmet, spelled G-O-U-R-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Fine; of superior quality.
Etymology
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggourmet,gorumet,goumret,gouremt,gourmett,gourmmet,gourmte,gourrmet,guormet,ogurmet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gourmet - 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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Using “gourmet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-U-R-M-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.