Gilles
\ʒil\
The verdict
“Gilles” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,759
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin courant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gilles · Gilles · French
Gilles · rank #3,759 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,759
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gardes
Nearest frequency peer: gardes (-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 « Gilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- feux
feux
96,245 corpus weight
- frapper
frapper
96,244 corpus weight
- gardes
gardes
96,243 corpus weight
- Gilles
Gilles
96,242 corpus weight
- gloire
gloire
96,241 corpus weight
- implique
implique
96,239 corpus weight
What this shows « Gilles » 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 | Gilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Gilles (IPA \ʒil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,759 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gilles, with forms such as "ggilles", "gilels", and "gilless". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "girls", "gîtes", "Gilly", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gilles, spelled G-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin courant.
- 2Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’héritage Johnson reste bien ancré : « L’identité britannique se construit de plus en plus en opposition avec l’identité européenne, et le populisme antieuropéen et antifrançais devrait fonctionner encore longtemps », poursuit Gilles Leydier, professeur et spécialiste de la Grande-Bretagne à l’université du Sud Toulon-Var.
Contrairement à Gilles et Clint et plus près d’Emmanuelle, Hélène sur-utilise les connaissances théoriques anatomiques pour venir à bout de cette prescription.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggilles
- gilels
- gilless
- gillse
- gliles
- iglles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gilles - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).