gillet
/ˈɡil:et/
The verdict
“gillet” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,666
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir envie de, faire l’effort de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gillet · gillet · French
gillet · rank #25,666 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,666
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GIFs
Nearest frequency peer: GIFs (-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 « gillet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gentilles
gentilles
74,338 corpus weight
- GIFs
GIFs
74,336 corpus weight
- gillet
gillet
74,335 corpus weight
- gobelet
gobelet
74,334 corpus weight
- gourmandise
gourmandise
74,333 corpus weight
- grimpé
grimpé
74,332 corpus weight
What this shows « gillet » 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 | gillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡil:et/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gillet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gillet (IPA /ˈɡil:et/), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,666 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Avoir envie de, faire l’effort de.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gillet, with forms such as "ggillet", "gilelt", and "gillett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gilly", "Grille", "goulet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gillet, spelled G-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Avoir envie de, faire l’effort de.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggillet
- gilelt
- gillett
- gillte
- glilet
- igllet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gillet - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gillet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).