galettes
\ɡa.lɛt\
The verdict
“galettes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,609
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de galette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galettes · galettes · French
galettes · rank #24,609 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,609
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaie
Nearest frequency peer: gaie (-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 « galettes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fédérer
fédérer
75,396 corpus weight
- gabonais
gabonais
75,394 corpus weight
- gaie
gaie
75,393 corpus weight
- galettes
galettes
75,392 corpus weight
- garce
garce
75,391 corpus weight
- gaulliste
gaulliste
75,390 corpus weight
What this shows « galettes » 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 | galettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « galettes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around galettes (IPA \ɡa.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,609 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de galette.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for galettes, with forms such as "aglettes", "gaelttes", and "galetes". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gazette", "gamètes", "galets", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is galettes, spelled G-A-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de galette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how galettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je suis dans la nécrozone, où le boulot m’appelle souvent – il y a beaucoup plus de pauvres que de riches, alors forcément – j’aime bien aller m’accouder en plein air à la tablette d’un brique-fast, où on peut manger des frites, des merguez de chien aux algues, des crêpes aux moules pisciculturées, des galettes de soja filé, des tas de trucs grillés…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aglettes
- gaelttes
- galetes
- galetets
- galettess
- galettse
- gallettes
- galtetes
- ggalettes
- glaettes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of galettes - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).