gauloise
\ɡo.lwaz\
The verdict
“gauloise” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,179
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de gaulois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gauloise · gauloise · French
gauloise · rank #30,179 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,179
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garenne
Nearest frequency peer: garenne (-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 « gauloise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- garderai
garderai
69,824 corpus weight
- garenne
garenne
69,823 corpus weight
- gauloise
gauloise
69,822 corpus weight
- giles
giles
69,821 corpus weight
- Gino
Gino
69,820 corpus weight
- gonna
gonna
69,819 corpus weight
What this shows « gauloise » 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 | gauloise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡo.lwaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gauloise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gauloise (IPA \ɡo.lwaz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,179 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de gaulois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gauloise, with forms such as "aguloise", "galuoise", and "gauliose". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gauloises", "gaulois", "gallois", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 gauloise, spelled G-A-U-L-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de gaulois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gauloise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les habitations sont encore de tradition gauloise, les murs montés à partir de poteaux de bois puis recouverts de terre prélevée sur place.
Il est probable que les deux récits soient issus d’une même source qui jusqu’à présent n’a pas été identifiée. Il est donc difficile de trancher pour savoir si la coutume était gauloise ou massaliote.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aguloise
- galuoise
- gauliose
- gaulloise
- gauloies
- gauloisse
- gaulosie
- gauolise
- ggauloise
- gualoise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gauloise - 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 "gauloise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).