galon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,858
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
galon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tissu d’or, d’argent, de soie, de fil, de laine, etc., qui a plus de corps qu’un simple ruban, et que l’on met au bord ou sur les coutures des vêtements, des meubles, etc., soit pour les empêcher d... Pronounced \ɡa.lɔ̃\. Often confused with gon and gan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for galon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,858 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for galon, with forms such as "aglon", "galno", and "galonn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gon", "gan", "gamin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 galon, spelled G-A-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tissu d’or, d’argent, de soie, de fil, de laine, etc., qui a plus de corps qu’un simple ruban, et que l’on met au bord ou sur les coutures des vêtements, des meubles, etc., soit pour les empêcher de s’effiler, soit pour servir d’ornement.
- 2Bande de laine, d’argent ou d’or que portent les officiers et les sous-officiers sur les manches de leur uniforme et sur leur képi ou casquette pour distinguer les grades.
- 3Reconnaissance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aglon,galno,galonn,gaoln,ggalon,glaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "galon"
Frequency rank: #36,858 in French
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