Gainsbourg
The verdict
“Gainsbourg” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,297 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #19,297
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante de Ginsburg.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gainsbourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gainsbourg” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Gainsbourg is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #19,297 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante de Ginsburg.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gainsbourg, with forms such as "aginsbourg", "gainbsourg", and "gainnsbourg". 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. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Gainsbourg, spelled G-A-I-N-S-B-O-U-R-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de Ginsburg.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aginsbourg,gainbsourg,gainnsbourg,gainsbbourg,gainsborug,gainsbougr,gainsbourgg,gainsbourrg,gainsbuorg,gainsoburg,gainssbourg,gaisnbourg,ganisbourg,ggainsbourg,giansbourg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gainsbourg — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Gainsbourg"
Frequency rank: #19,297 in French
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Using “Gainsbourg”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-I-N-S-B-O-U-R-G — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Nearby French words
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