galets
\ɡa.lɛ\
The verdict
“galets” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,737
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de galet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galets · galets · French
galets · rank #20,737 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,737
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gagnon
Nearest frequency peer: Gagnon (-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 « galets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frégate
frégate
79,268 corpus weight
- féminité
féminité
79,267 corpus weight
- Gagnon
Gagnon
79,265 corpus weight
- galets
galets
79,264 corpus weight
- garantissant
garantissant
79,263 corpus weight
- gauchiste
gauchiste
79,261 corpus weight
What this shows « galets » 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 | galets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « galets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around galets (IPA \ɡa.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,737 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de galet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for galets, with forms such as "aglets", "gaelts", and "galest". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gets", "gants", "games", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is galets, spelled G-A-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de galet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how galets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cette masse figée, où les éléments non encore altérés prédominent, les graviers et galets granitiques commencent à s’aréniser.
Peu encline à l’immobilisme et à la réclusion, elle sillonnait la ville et nous nous retrouvions à la terrasse du Cala au-dessus des galets gris et du vacarme des vagues, ou dans le quartier de Rímac au pied du Cerro San Cristóbal de l’autre côté du pont gardé par un blindé sur roues, ancien bourg colonial espagnol devenu cour des miracles, estropiés et c…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aglets
- gaelts
- galest
- galetss
- galetts
- gallets
- galtes
- ggalets
- glaets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of galets - 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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).