ghosts
\ɡɔst\
The verdict
“ghosts” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,636. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,636
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ghost.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ghosts · ghosts · French
ghosts · rank #45,636 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,636
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garderais
Nearest frequency peer: garderais (-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 « ghosts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gagneras
gagneras
54,368 corpus weight
- Gaius
Gaius
54,367 corpus weight
- garderais
garderais
54,366 corpus weight
- ghosts
ghosts
54,365 corpus weight
- gibert
gibert
54,364 corpus weight
- Gilberte
Gilberte
54,363 corpus weight
What this shows « ghosts » 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 | ghosts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔst\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ghosts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ghosts (IPA \ɡɔst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,636 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ghost.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ghosts, with forms such as "gghosts", "ghhosts", and "ghossts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "goûts", "gross", "gloss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ghosts, spelled G-H-O-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ghost.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gghosts
- ghhosts
- ghossts
- ghostss
- ghostts
- ghotss
- ghsots
- gohsts
- hgosts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ghosts - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).