Gainsbourg

name

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The verdict

“Gainsbourg” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,297
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Ginsburg.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gainsbourg · Gainsbourg · French

Gainsbourg · rank #19,297 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,297
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH fœtus

Nearest frequency peer: fœtus (-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 « Gainsbourg »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Gainsbourg » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Gainsbourg
PropertyValue
HeadwordGainsbourg
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#19,297
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gainsbourg »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Gainsbourgse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fœtus » (#19,296), « gate » (#19,298), « furieuse » (#19,295). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Gainsbourg » est au #19,297. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around Gainsbourg, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,297 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de Ginsburg.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gainsbourg, with forms such as "aginsbourg", "gainbsourg", and "gainnsbourg". 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Gainsbourg, spelled G-A-I-N-S-B-O-U-R-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de Ginsburg.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Gainsbourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Serge Gainsbourg.
  2. Gainsbourg a aussi été un des premiers à utiliser la technique du « talk-over » ou « parlé-chanté », « qui a été imité et l’est encore énormément par des chanteurs qui, parfois, n’en sont pas», rappelle Pascal Bussy, label manager chez Harmonia Mundi, qui voit en Gainsbourg et Charles Trenet les deux piliers de la chanson française.

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 - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aginsbourg2gainbsourg2gainnsbourg1gainsbbourg1gainsborug2gainsbougr2gainsbourgg1gainsbourrg1
Edit distance from "Gainsbourg"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gainsbourg"?
"Gainsbourg" is spelled G-A-I-N-S-B-O-U-R-G.
What does "Gainsbourg" mean?
As a proper noun, "Gainsbourg" means: Variante de Ginsburg.
What are common misspellings of "Gainsbourg"?
Common misspellings include "aginsbourg", "gainbsourg", "gainnsbourg", "gainsbbourg", "gainsborug". The correct spelling is "Gainsbourg".
What language does "Gainsbourg" come from?
"Gainsbourg" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gainsbourg", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list