Gestapo
\ɡɛs.ta.po\
The verdict
“Gestapo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,576
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Police politique du nazisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gestapo · Gestapo · French
Gestapo · rank #22,576 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,576
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH geeks
Nearest frequency peer: geeks (-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 « Gestapo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- futuriste
futuriste
77,428 corpus weight
- gagnerait
gagnerait
77,427 corpus weight
- geeks
geeks
77,426 corpus weight
- Gestapo
Gestapo
77,425 corpus weight
- Greta
Greta
77,424 corpus weight
- Grimm
Grimm
77,423 corpus weight
What this shows « Gestapo » 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 | Gestapo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛs.ta.po\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gestapo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Gestapo (IPA \ɡɛs.ta.po\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,576 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 Gestapo, with forms such as "egstapo", "gesatpo", and "gesstapo". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Gustavo", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Gestapo, spelled G-E-S-T-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Police politique du nazisme.
- 2Police qui pratique la torture, les massacres individuels ou de masse, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gestapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il profite de sa carte de police pour contrôler l’identité de plusieurs suspects fraîchement débarqués à Guingamp, dont un Quinocéen, un sujet italien, un Espagnol, etc. Persuadé qu’il a affaire à des individus au service de la Gestapo, il avertit le lieutenant Louis Piriou, chef de maquis de Plouisy.
Le maréchal Pétain, chef du nouveau gouvernement, était soumis aux forces d’occupation, et la Gestapo agissait avec la collaboration pleine et entière de la gendarmerie française.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egstapo
- gesatpo
- gesstapo
- gestaop
- gestappo
- gestpao
- gesttapo
- getsapo
- ggestapo
- gsetapo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gestapo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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