Gaston
\ɡas.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“Gaston” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,170
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaston · Gaston · French
Gaston · rank #9,170 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,170
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gardez
Nearest frequency peer: gardez (-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 « Gaston »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forteresse
forteresse
90,834 corpus weight
- gardent
gardent
90,833 corpus weight
- gardez
gardez
90,832 corpus weight
- Gaston
Gaston
90,831 corpus weight
- grandit
grandit
90,830 corpus weight
- Greg
Greg
90,828 corpus weight
What this shows « Gaston » 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 | Gaston |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡas.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gaston »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gaston (IPA \ɡas.tɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,170 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gaston, with forms such as "agston", "gasotn", and "gasston". 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", "gestion", "gratton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gaston, spelled G-A-S-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gaston appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gaston se leva, se mit au piano et commença cette merveilleuse mélodie de Weber, dont la musique était ouverte sur le pupitre.
Gaston y a l'téléfon qui son Et y a jamais person qui y répond Gaston y a l'téléfon qui son Et y a jamais person qui y répond.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agston
- gasotn
- gasston
- gastno
- gastonn
- gastton
- gatson
- ggaston
- gsaton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gaston - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gaston", 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).