geôlier
\ʒo.lje\
The verdict
“geôlier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,360
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui garde les prisonniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geolier · geôlier · French
geôlier · rank #42,360 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gideon
Nearest frequency peer: Gideon (+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 « geôlier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fêtons
fêtons
57,645 corpus weight
- gaillarde
gaillarde
57,644 corpus weight
- Gemini
Gemini
57,643 corpus weight
- geôlier
geôlier
57,641 corpus weight
- Gideon
Gideon
57,640 corpus weight
- gigolo
gigolo
57,638 corpus weight
What this shows « geôlier » 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 | geôlier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒo.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « geôlier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around geôlier (IPA \ʒo.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,360 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for geôlier, with forms such as "egôlier", "gelôier", and "geolier". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gosier", "geler", "geôles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is geôlier, spelled G-E-Ô-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui garde les prisonniers.
- 2Le concierge de la prison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geôlier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] puis mon geôlier m’enferma dans une petite pièce obscure. C’était un cachot, presque un placard, où la lumière du jour n’entrait jamais.
Dès lors, je ne fus plus pour elle un protecteur, mais un geôlier; ma chambre cessa d'être un asile, et devint une prison.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egôlier
- gelôier
- geolier
- geôiler
- geôleir
- geôlierr
- geôlire
- geôllier
- ggeôlier
- gôelier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of geôlier - 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 "geôlier", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).