Gaulle
The verdict
“Gaulle” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,042
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gaule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaulle · Gaulle · French
Gaulle · rank #5,042 · 5 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH foie
Nearest frequency peer: foie (-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 « Gaulle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finis
finis
94,962 corpus weight
- fiscal
fiscal
94,961 corpus weight
- foie
foie
94,960 corpus weight
- Gaulle
Gaulle
94,959 corpus weight
- ignorer
ignorer
94,958 corpus weight
- imaginaire
imaginaire
94,957 corpus weight
What this shows « Gaulle » 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 | Gaulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gaulle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Gaulle, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,042 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gaule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gaulle, with forms such as "agulle", "galule", and "gaulel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gille", "gault", "gulli", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Gaulle, spelled G-A-U-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Gaule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gaulle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gaulle avoit nom France, cel jor
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agulle
- galule
- gaulel
- ggaulle
- gualle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gaulle - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Gaulle", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).