goélette
\ɡɔ.e.lɛt\
The verdict
“goélette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,115
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hirondelle de mer, sterne pierregarin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goelette · goélette · French
goélette · rank #49,115 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,115
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH golfeurs
Nearest frequency peer: golfeurs (-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 « goélette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glycol
glycol
50,889 corpus weight
- golfeurs
golfeurs
50,887 corpus weight
- goélette
goélette
50,886 corpus weight
- Gregorio
Gregorio
50,885 corpus weight
- Guilbert
Guilbert
50,884 corpus weight
- gulliver
gulliver
50,883 corpus weight
What this shows « goélette » 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 | goélette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.e.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « goélette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around goélette (IPA \ɡɔ.e.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,115 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for goélette, with forms such as "ggoélette", "goelette", and "goléette". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "galette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is goélette, spelled G-O-É-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Hirondelle de mer, sterne pierregarin.
- 2Navire léger à deux mâts, à gréement aurique ou bermudien et jaugeant de cinquante à deux-cents tonneaux.
- 3Camionnette aménagée pour le transport de personnes. (Par antonomase du nom d'un véhicule utilitaire fabriqué par Renault de 1959 à 1965.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goélette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous fûmes environnés d’une innombrable quantité de goëlettes, qui nous faisaient soupçonner que nous passions auprès de quelque île ou rocher. — (Voyages de La Pérouse, 1797)
C’était une charmante petite goélette de vingt tonneaux que la Tankadère, bien pincée de l’avant, très-dégagée dans ses façons, très-allongée dans ses lignes d’eau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoélette
- goelette
- goléette
- goéeltte
- goélete
- goéletet
- goéllette
- goéltete
- géolette
- ogélette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goélette - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).