gelée

\ʒə.le\

/\ʒə.le\/ noun

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The verdict

“gelée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,394. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,394
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Froid qui glace l’eau et qui rend les corps plus rigides.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gelee · gelée · French

gelée · rank #13,394 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,394
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH fédérations

Nearest frequency peer: fédérations (-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 « gelée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gelée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gelée vs gène
40% similar
gelée vs gels
60% similar
gelée vs gere
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gelée
PropertyValue
Headwordgelée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒə.le\
Letters5
Frequency rank#13,394
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gelée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).geléese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fédérations » (#13,393), « ghetto » (#13,395), « gonflé » (#13,396). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gelée » est au #13,394. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around gelée (IPA \ʒə.le\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,394 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gelée, with forms such as "eglée", "gelee", and "geleé". 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, "gène", "gels", "gere", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gelée, spelled G-E-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Froid qui glace l’eau et qui rend les corps plus rigides.
  2. 2
    Suc de viande ou de quelque autre substance qui a pris une consistance molle en se refroidissant.
  3. 3
    Jus de fruits cuits avec du sucre qui prend par le refroidissement une consistance gélatineuse.
  4. 4
    État gélatineux de parties végétales ou animales.
  5. 5
    État que l’alumine, la silice, la colle, etc. prennent, quand, ayant été dissoutes dans un liquide, elles s’en séparent à l’état solide.
  6. 6
    En gelée, en forme de gelée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gelée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le sol se recouvrit, à sa surface, d’une croûte blanche, très distincte de la gelée, —celle-ci n’étant qu’une vapeur aqueuse qui se congèle après sa précipitation.
  2. […] l’hiver arriva plus tôt que d’habitude, vers le commencement de novembre. Il ne commença point par de la neige, mais par un froid sec et de grandes gelées.

Synonyms

blanc-manger

This word in other languages

frost(English)helada(Español)Ausfrieren(Deutsch)geada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eglée
  • gelee
  • geleé
  • gellée
  • geéle
  • ggelée
  • gleée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gelée - 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.

eglée2gelee1geleé2gellée1geéle2ggelée1gleée2
Edit distance from "gelée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gelée"?
"gelée" is spelled G-E-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒə.le\.
What does "gelée" mean?
As a noun, "gelée" means: Froid qui glace l’eau et qui rend les corps plus rigides.
What words are commonly confused with "gelée"?
"gelée" is commonly confused with "gène", "gels", "gere". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gelée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gelée" is \ʒə.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gelée" come from?
"gelée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gelée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

forge#13,389lèvre#13,423Morel#13,430Nadia#13,433

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

ghetto7 variantsHannah7 variantsmorris7 variantsdevis7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list