Galles
\ɡal\
The verdict
“Galles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,415
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de Pays de Galles (pays faisant partie du Royaume-Uni, situé au sud-ouest de la Grande-Bretagne), utilisée notamment dans un contexte sportif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-galles · Galles · French
Galles · rank #11,415 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH félicité
Nearest frequency peer: félicité (-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 « Galles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- focus
focus
88,589 corpus weight
- fournitures
fournitures
88,588 corpus weight
- félicité
félicité
88,587 corpus weight
- Galles
Galles
88,586 corpus weight
- gendarme
gendarme
88,585 corpus weight
- Ghana
Ghana
88,584 corpus weight
What this shows « Galles » 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 | Galles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Galles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Galles (IPA \ɡal\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,415 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Galles, with forms such as "aglles", "galels", and "gales". 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, "games", "gares", "gaule", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Galles, spelled G-A-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de Pays de Galles (pays faisant partie du Royaume-Uni, situé au sud-ouest de la Grande-Bretagne), utilisée notamment dans un contexte sportif.
- 2pluriel La famille du prince de Galles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Galles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Est-ce que tu regarderas le match France-Galles demain ?
Les Galles auraient d’ailleurs prévu de gagner Anmer Hall, leur cottage situé sur le domaine royal de Sandringham, à la fin de l’année scolaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aglles
- galels
- gales
- galless
- gallse
- ggalles
- glales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Galles - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).