Gautier
\ɡo.tje\
The verdict
“Gautier” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,225
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gautier · Gautier · French
Gautier · rank #11,225 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,225
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaule
Nearest frequency peer: gaule (-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 « Gautier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- habituer
habituer
88,773 corpus weight
What this shows « Gautier » 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 | Gautier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡo.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gautier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gautier (IPA \ɡo.tje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,225 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gautier, with forms such as "agutier", "gatuier", and "gauiter". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gouter", "gazier", "gâter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Gautier, spelled G-A-U-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gautier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De « l’aberration » d’un penalty accordé à Neymar par Clément Turpin en 2021, aux « grosses erreurs » d’Antony Gautier à l’OM en 2019, en passant par Olivier Thual qui « ne peut pas arbitrer à ce niveau-là » après avoir exclu Källström en 2007.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agutier
- gatuier
- gauiter
- gauteir
- gautierr
- gautire
- gauttier
- ggautier
- guatier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gautier - 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 "Gautier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).