gironde

Name: gironde, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\

/\ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“gironde” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,847
frequency rank, French: 2,617
“G” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de girond.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gironde · gironde · French

gironde · rank #9,847 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #9,847
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 2,617
PHOTO-FINISH gentillesse

Nearest frequency peer: gentillesse (-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.

féliciter

90,157
féminisme

90,156
gentillesse

90,155
gironde

90,154
golden

90,153
halte

90,151

What this shows « gironde » 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).

gironde vs grande

71% similar

gironde vs Giroud

57% similar

gironde vs gronde

86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gironde
Property	Value
Headword	gironde
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#9,847
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	7
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gironde »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).girondese place ici:

#9,847

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gentillesse » (#9,846), « golden » (#9,848), « féminisme » (#9,845). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gironde » est au #9,847. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around gironde (IPA \ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,847 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de girond.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gironde, with forms such as "ggironde", "giornde", and "girnode". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "grande", "Giroud", "gronde", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gironde, spelled G-I-R-O-N-D-E.

Definition

1
Féminin singulier de girond.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gironde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Elle est allée se frusquer, depuis tout à l’heure, s’arranger un peu la pêche, et elle est gironde tout plein, dans son petit tailleur gris sous son manteau rouge entrouvert.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ggironde
giornde
girnode
girodne
girondde
gironed
gironnde
girronde
grionde
igronde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gironde - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "gironde"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gironde"?

"gironde" is spelled G-I-R-O-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\.

What does "gironde" mean?

As an adjective, "gironde" means: Féminin singulier de girond.

What words are commonly confused with "gironde"?

"gironde" is commonly confused with "grande", "Giroud", "gronde". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "gironde"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gironde" is \ʒi.ʁɔ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "gironde" come from?

"gironde" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gironde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

franchi#9,841 foutent#9,839 Islande#9,857 Ferrand#9,832

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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