gigolo
\ʒi.ɡo.lo\
The verdict
“gigolo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,363
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compagnon d’une gigolette, son amant de cœur alors qu’elle peut être entretenue par un autre homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gigolo · gigolo · French
gigolo · rank #42,363 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,363
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gondole
Nearest frequency peer: gondole (+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 « gigolo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gemini
Gemini
57,643 corpus weight
- geôlier
geôlier
57,641 corpus weight
- Gideon
Gideon
57,640 corpus weight
- gigolo
gigolo
57,638 corpus weight
- gondole
gondole
57,637 corpus weight
- goupil
goupil
57,635 corpus weight
What this shows « gigolo » 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 | gigolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ɡo.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gigolo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gigolo (IPA \ʒi.ɡo.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,363 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gigolo, with forms such as "ggigolo", "ggiolo", and "giggolo". 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, "gogol", "gigot", "Giono", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gigolo, spelled G-I-G-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Compagnon d’une gigolette, son amant de cœur alors qu’elle peut être entretenue par un autre homme.
- 2Proxénète, souteneur.
- 3Homme entretenu par une femme ou un homme plus âgé(e) dont il est l’amant.
- 4Homme de bonne condition extérieure mais dont les moyens de subsistances sont louches.
- 5Prostitué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gigolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Mon petit Totole, ou mon petit Guguste, ou mon petit Polyte, » dit la gigolette à son gigolo, « j’ai mon terme à payer après-demain, et il ne m’en a donné que la moitié : il faut que tu me fasses le reste. » … Les gigolos, qui sont souvent de jeunes commis en nouveautés, s’habillent assez correctement - ni gandins, ni ouvriers - et c’est même là un de l…
Un après-midi, à la Nationale, le Hongrois me dérangea à deux reprises pour me consulter sur les finesses de la langue française : il voulait savoir, entre autres choses, si on pouvait utiliser le mot « gigolo » dans la préface d’une thèse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggigolo
- ggiolo
- giggolo
- gigloo
- gigollo
- gigool
- gioglo
- iggolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gigolo - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).