gascon
\ɡas.kɔ̃\
The verdict
“gascon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,787
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Gascogne, à ses habitants, à leur idiome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gascon · gascon · French
gascon · rank #29,787 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,787
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garages
Nearest frequency peer: garages (-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 « gascon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fuji
Fuji
70,217 corpus weight
- félins
félins
70,216 corpus weight
- garages
garages
70,215 corpus weight
- gascon
gascon
70,214 corpus weight
- Gaëlle
Gaëlle
70,213 corpus weight
- Gaëtan
Gaëtan
70,212 corpus weight
What this shows « gascon » 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 | gascon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡas.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gascon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gascon (IPA \ɡas.kɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,787 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gascon, with forms such as "agscon", "gacson", and "gasccon". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "gazon", "Gaston", "glaçon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gascon, spelled G-A-S-C-O-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Gascogne, à ses habitants, à leur idiome.
- 2Fanfaron, hâbleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gascon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À coté de lui, vous voyez l’abbé Raynal ; on peut le reconnaître à sa perruque et à son accent gascon : …
Coffe était en grande faveur auprès de l’illustre député, faveur basée sur cette grande qualité : il n’est pas gascon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agscon
- gacson
- gasccon
- gascno
- gasconn
- gasocn
- gasscon
- ggascon
- gsacon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gascon - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gascon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).