gil
\ˈɡiːl\
The verdict
“gil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,150) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,150
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de kil par adoucissement (k → g).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gil · gil · French
gil · rank #15,150 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,150
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Geoffroy
Nearest frequency peer: Geoffroy (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gil »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- five
five
84,855 corpus weight
- gages
gages
84,853 corpus weight
- Geoffroy
Geoffroy
84,852 corpus weight
- gil
gil
84,851 corpus weight
- glacier
glacier
84,850 corpus weight
- gun
gun
84,848 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gil » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | gil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡiːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gil »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gil is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈɡiːl\. Frequency #15,150 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de kil par adoucissement (k → g).".
No misspelling variants are generated for gil in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gil, spelled G-I-L.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de kil par adoucissement (k → g).
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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