girofle
\ʒi.ʁɔfl\
The verdict
“girofle” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,311
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouton des fleurs du giroflier qui est à peu près de la figure d’un petit clou à tête et qui est employé comme épice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-girofle · girofle · French
girofle · rank #41,311 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH giratoire
Nearest frequency peer: giratoire (-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 « girofle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gifles
gifles
58,693 corpus weight
- girafes
girafes
58,692 corpus weight
- giratoire
giratoire
58,691 corpus weight
- girofle
girofle
58,690 corpus weight
- glorificati…
glorification
58,689 corpus weight
- gousse
gousse
58,687 corpus weight
What this shows « girofle » 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 | girofle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁɔfl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « girofle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around girofle (IPA \ʒi.ʁɔfl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,311 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bouton des fleurs du giroflier qui est à peu près de la figure d’un petit clou à tête et qui est employé comme épice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for girofle, with forms such as "ggirofle", "giorfle", and "girfole". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gironde", "gifle", "girafe", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is girofle, spelled G-I-R-O-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bouton des fleurs du giroflier qui est à peu près de la figure d’un petit clou à tête et qui est employé comme épice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how girofle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’huile de girofle.
Un clou de girofle.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggirofle
- giorfle
- girfole
- girofel
- giroffle
- giroflle
- girolfe
- girrofle
- griofle
- igrofle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of girofle - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "girofle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).