Gilly
\ʒi.li\
The verdict
“Gilly” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,787
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Section de la commune de Charleroi en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gilly · Gilly · French
Gilly · rank #46,787 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,787
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gh
Nearest frequency peer: gh (-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 « Gilly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gallons
gallons
53,217 corpus weight
- gets
gets
53,216 corpus weight
- gh
gh
53,215 corpus weight
- Gilly
Gilly
53,214 corpus weight
- gimp
gimp
53,213 corpus weight
- Giordano
Giordano
53,212 corpus weight
What this shows « Gilly » 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 | Gilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gilly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Gilly (IPA \ʒi.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,787 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Section de la commune de Charleroi en Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gilly, with forms such as "ggilly", "gillyy", and "gily". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "girl", "girls", "grill", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gilly, spelled G-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Section de la commune de Charleroi en Belgique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggilly
- gillyy
- gily
- gilyl
- glily
- iglly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gilly - 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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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).