gobain
\ɡɔ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“gobain” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,968
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de parquet coupé en triangle pour terminer un parquet en point de Hongrie
Corpus desk
Index FR-gobain · gobain · French
gobain · rank #35,968 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,968
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GmbH
Nearest frequency peer: GmbH (-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 « gobain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gladys
Gladys
64,035 corpus weight
- GmbH
GmbH
64,034 corpus weight
- gobain
gobain
64,033 corpus weight
- Goebbels
Goebbels
64,032 corpus weight
- Gomis
Gomis
64,031 corpus weight
- goodies
goodies
64,030 corpus weight
What this shows « gobain » 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 | gobain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gobain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gobain (IPA \ɡɔ.bɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,968 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Morceau de parquet coupé en triangle pour terminer un parquet en point de Hongrie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gobain, with forms such as "gboain", "ggobain", and "goabin". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "grain", "Godin", "gouin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gobain, spelled G-O-B-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Morceau de parquet coupé en triangle pour terminer un parquet en point de Hongrie
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gboain
- ggobain
- goabin
- gobainn
- gobani
- gobbain
- gobian
- ogbain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gobain - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).