gourmet
[guɾˈmet̪]
The verdict
“gourmet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,351
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona versada en gastronomía, de gusto delicado y paladar exquisito, conocedor de platillos sumamente refinados, excelente catador de propiedades organolépticas de alimentos y vinos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gourmet |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [guɾˈmet̪] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gourmet” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gourmet (IPA [guɾˈmet̪]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,351 among 17,549 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Persona versada en gastronomía, de gusto delicado y paladar exquisito, conocedor de platillos sumamente refinados, excelente catador de propiedades organolépticas de alimentos y vinos.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gourmet, with forms such as "ggourmet", "gorumet", and "goumret". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is gourmet, spelled G-O-U-R-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Persona versada en gastronomía, de gusto delicado y paladar exquisito, conocedor de platillos sumamente refinados, excelente catador de propiedades organolépticas de alimentos y vinos.
Synonyms
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 - 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 Spanish 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 Spanish spelling is G-O-U-R-M-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [guɾˈmet̪] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.