Guillaume
"guillaume" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guillaume” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,020
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guillaume · Guillaume · English
Guillaume · rank #32,020 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guatemalan
Nearest frequency peer: Guatemalan (-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 “Guillaume”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- grunts
grunts
67,984 corpus weight
- Guadalupe
Guadalupe
67,983 corpus weight
- Guatemalan
Guatemalan
67,982 corpus weight
- Guillaume
Guillaume
67,981 corpus weight
- Guzman
Guzman
67,980 corpus weight
- Haq
Haq
67,978 corpus weight
What this shows “Guillaume” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guillaume |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Guillaume”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Guillaume, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,020 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A male given name from French.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guillaume, with forms such as "gguillaume", "giullaume", and "guilalume". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French. Doublet of Guillermo, William, and Wilhelm, etc. The correct English form is Guillaume, spelled G-U-I-L-L-A-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1A male given name from French.
Etymology
From French. Doublet of Guillermo, William, and Wilhelm, etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguillaume
- giullaume
- guilalume
- guilaume
- guillamue
- guillauem
- guillaumme
- guilluame
- gulilaume
- ugillaume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guillaume - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).