gigot
\ʒi.ɡo\
The verdict
“gigot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,805
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuisse de mouton, d’agneau, de chevreuil séparée du corps de l’animal pour être mangée. → voir cuissot
Corpus desk
Index FR-gigot · gigot · French
gigot · rank #41,805 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,805
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gere
Nearest frequency peer: gere (-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 « gigot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Garth
Garth
58,199 corpus weight
- Gaïa
Gaïa
58,198 corpus weight
- gere
gere
58,197 corpus weight
- gigot
gigot
58,196 corpus weight
- Givenchy
Givenchy
58,195 corpus weight
- glam
glam
58,194 corpus weight
What this shows « gigot » 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 | gigot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gigot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gigot (IPA \ʒi.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,805 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gigot, with forms such as "ggigot", "ggiot", and "giggot". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "got", "gît", "gogo", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gigot, spelled G-I-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Cuisse de mouton, d’agneau, de chevreuil séparée du corps de l’animal pour être mangée. → voir cuissot
- 2Cuisse, jambe.
- 3Manche (féminin) longue, bouffante en haut du bras et se rétrécissant après le coude pour être très ajustée au poignet (par ellipse de manche gigot ou manche à gigot ou manche à la gigot).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gigot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après un gigot flageolets avalé chez belle-maman, qu'il appelle « ma mère », monsieur met à profit l'après-midi dominical pour s'immerger dans la comptabilité familiale.
Mettre un gigot à la broche, faire cuire un gigot au four, gigot braisé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggigot
- ggiot
- giggot
- gigott
- gigto
- giogt
- iggot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gigot - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).