Gabon
\ɡa.bɔ̃\
The verdict
“Gabon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,666
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays situé dans l’Ouest de l’Afrique centrale, et dont la capitale est Libreville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gabon · Gabon · French
Gabon · rank #9,666 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fusée
Nearest frequency peer: fusée (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gabon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frappes
frappes
90,338 corpus weight
- fusée
fusée
90,336 corpus weight
- Gabon
Gabon
90,335 corpus weight
- gardant
gardant
90,334 corpus weight
- greffe
greffe
90,333 corpus weight
- Hollandais
Hollandais
90,332 corpus weight
What this shows « Gabon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Gabon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.bɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gabon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gabon (IPA \ɡa.bɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,666 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays situé dans l’Ouest de l’Afrique centrale, et dont la capitale est Libreville.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gabon, with forms such as "agbon", "gabbon", and "gabno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gon", "gan", "gain", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Gabon, spelled G-A-B-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pays situé dans l’Ouest de l’Afrique centrale, et dont la capitale est Libreville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gabon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’histoire de l’exploration du Gabon nous donne un exemple saillant de la gravité des erreurs que les explorateurs européens sont exposés à faire lorsqu’ils arrivent dans des régions inconnues.
Dès les premiers pas dans l'entrepôt, on découvre les placages (ou feuilles) d’okoumé en provenance du Gabon, épais de quelques millimètres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agbon
- gabbon
- gabno
- gabonn
- gaobn
- gbaon
- ggabon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gabon - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).