gargantua
The verdict
“gargantua” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,912
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand mangeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gargantua · gargantua · French
gargantua · rank #47,912 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gardiner
Nearest frequency peer: Gardiner (-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 « gargantua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gagnerais
gagnerais
52,092 corpus weight
- Gamecube
Gamecube
52,091 corpus weight
- Gardiner
Gardiner
52,090 corpus weight
- gargantua
gargantua
52,089 corpus weight
- gea
gea
52,088 corpus weight
- germanophone
germanophone
52,087 corpus weight
What this shows « gargantua » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gargantua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gargantua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around gargantua, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,912 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grand mangeur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gargantua, with forms such as "agrgantua", "gagrantua", and "garagntua". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 gargantua, spelled G-A-R-G-A-N-T-U-A.
Definition
- 1Grand mangeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gargantua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un appétit de gargantua.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrgantua
- gagrantua
- garagntua
- garganntua
- gargantau
- garganttua
- garganuta
- gargatnua
- garggantua
- gargnatua
- garrgantua
- ggargantua
- gragantua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gargantua - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).