Gloucester
\ɡlu.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“Gloucester” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,471. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,471
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre situé dans le Gloucestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gloucester · Gloucester · French
Gloucester · rank #43,471 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,471
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissait
Nearest frequency peer: glissait (-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 « Gloucester »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glaucome
glaucome
56,532 corpus weight
- glissait
glissait
56,531 corpus weight
- Gloucester
Gloucester
56,530 corpus weight
- goodbye
goodbye
56,529 corpus weight
- gourmets
gourmets
56,528 corpus weight
- gouttières
gouttières
56,527 corpus weight
What this shows « Gloucester » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gloucester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡlu.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gloucester »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Gloucester (IPA \ɡlu.stɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,471 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gloucester, with forms such as "ggloucester", "glloucester", and "glocuester". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Gloucester, spelled G-L-O-U-C-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre situé dans le Gloucestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
- 2District ou comté autour de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gloucester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le West-Riding partage avec l’Écosse la filature et le tissage mécanique du lin, avec les comtés de Gloucester, de Somerset et de Norfolk la fabrication des étoffes de laine, avec Birmingham et avec Wolverhampton la manufacture de coutellerie, de quincaillerie et de plaqués. Chaque genre de travail se localise et a son siège particulier : ainsi, le fer et…
Dépassé en fin de partie à Gloucester la semaine dernière (photo), l’UBB aura fort à faire face à une équipe sud-africaine qui, pendant ce temps-là, plantait cinq essais aux Harlequins.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggloucester
- glloucester
- glocuester
- glouccester
- gloucesetr
- gloucesster
- gloucesterr
- gloucestre
- gloucestter
- gloucetser
- gloucseter
- glouecster
- gluocester
- golucester
- lgoucester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gloucester - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).