gaule
\ɡol\
The verdict
“gaule” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,224
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long bâton relativement flexible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaule · gaule · French
gaule · rank #11,224 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,224
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gautier
Nearest frequency peer: Gautier (+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 « gaule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flot
flot
88,780 corpus weight
- foncier
foncier
88,779 corpus weight
- gaule
gaule
88,777 corpus weight
- Gautier
Gautier
88,776 corpus weight
- gazon
gazon
88,775 corpus weight
- geek
geek
88,774 corpus weight
What this shows « gaule » 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 | gaule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡol\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gaule (IPA \ɡol\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,224 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaule, with forms such as "agule", "galue", and "gauel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gué", "grue", "gave", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gaule, spelled G-A-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Long bâton relativement flexible.
- 2Bâton.
- 3Petite branche de houx, houssine ou baguette très flexible servant à instruire ou à châtier les chevaux.
- 4Manche de la ligne.
- 5Érection.
- 6Jeune tige, de plus de 3 m de hauteur et moins de 7.5 cm de diamètre à hauteur d’homme.
- 7Levier qui meut le piston d’une pompe.
- 8Sorte de robe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si j’avais tué une dinde sauvage, un ramier, un faisan des bois, nous le suspendions devant le chêne embrasé, au bout d’une gaule plantée en terre, et nous abandonnions au vent le soin de tourner la proie du chasseur.
Avec sa gaule, il essaya de harponner l’uniforme bleu, manqua son coup, essaya encore, quand le tourbillon ramena le cadavre, et il réussit à le pousser vers le large.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agule
- galue
- gauel
- ggaule
- guale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaule - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).