gitans
\ʒi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“gitans” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,225
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de gitan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gitans · gitans · French
gitans · rank #24,225 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,225
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gin
Nearest frequency peer: Gin (-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 « gitans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gent
Gent
75,779 corpus weight
- Gerry
Gerry
75,778 corpus weight
- Gin
Gin
75,777 corpus weight
- gitans
gitans
75,776 corpus weight
- glucides
glucides
75,775 corpus weight
- gonflement
gonflement
75,774 corpus weight
What this shows « gitans » 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 | gitans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gitans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gitans (IPA \ʒi.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,225 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de gitan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gitans, with forms such as "ggitans", "giatns", and "gitanns". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gîtes", "giant", "gitan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 gitans, spelled G-I-T-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de gitan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggitans
- giatns
- gitanns
- gitanss
- gitasn
- gitnas
- gittans
- gtians
- igtans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gitans - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).