Gibraltar
\ʒi.bʁal.taʁ\
The verdict
“Gibraltar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,281. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,281
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Territoire dépendant du Royaume-Uni, situé en Europe du sud-ouest, qui forme une péninsule au sud de l’Espagne, en bordure du détroit de Gibraltar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gibraltar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.bʁal.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gibraltar” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Gibraltar (IPA \ʒi.bʁal.taʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,281 among 194,371 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gibraltar, with forms such as "gbiraltar", "ggibraltar", and "gibarltar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Gibraltar, spelled G-I-B-R-A-L-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Territoire dépendant du Royaume-Uni, situé en Europe du sud-ouest, qui forme une péninsule au sud de l’Espagne, en bordure du détroit de Gibraltar.
- 2Autorités gouvernant ce territoire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gbiraltar
- ggibraltar
- gibarltar
- gibbraltar
- gibralatr
- gibralltar
- gibraltarr
- gibraltra
- gibralttar
- gibratlar
- gibrlatar
- gibrraltar
- girbaltar
- igbraltar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gibraltar - 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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Using “Gibraltar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-I-B-R-A-L-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒi.bʁal.taʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.