garrot
\ɡa.ʁo\
The verdict
“garrot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,958
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du corps de certains quadrupèdes, et principalement du cheval, qui est située au-dessus des épaules et qui termine le cou, l’encolure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garrot · garrot · French
garrot · rank #35,958 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,958
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garner
Nearest frequency peer: garner (-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 « garrot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- francilien
francilien
64,046 corpus weight
- frire
frire
64,045 corpus weight
- garner
garner
64,044 corpus weight
- garrot
garrot
64,043 corpus weight
- gastronomiq…
gastronomiques
64,042 corpus weight
- gauchos
gauchos
64,041 corpus weight
What this shows « garrot » 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 | garrot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « garrot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around garrot (IPA \ɡa.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,958 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie du corps de certains quadrupèdes, et principalement du cheval, qui est située au-dessus des épaules et qui termine le cou, l’encolure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for garrot, with forms such as "agrrot", "garort", and "garot". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "groot", "garou", "garçon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is garrot, spelled G-A-R-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1Partie du corps de certains quadrupèdes, et principalement du cheval, qui est située au-dessus des épaules et qui termine le cou, l’encolure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garrot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce cheval a été blessé au garrot.
L’oryx algazelle mesure au garrot 120 cm pour un poids de 200 kg.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrrot
- garort
- garot
- garrott
- garrto
- ggarrot
- grarot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garrot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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