Gold
The verdict
“Gold” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,702
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gold · Gold · French
Gold · rank #7,702 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,702
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glaces
Nearest frequency peer: glaces (-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 « Gold »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gants
gants
92,302 corpus weight
- Gary
Gary
92,301 corpus weight
- glaces
glaces
92,300 corpus weight
- Gold
Gold
92,299 corpus weight
- grant
grant
92,298 corpus weight
- Grégoire
Grégoire
92,297 corpus weight
What this shows « Gold » 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 | Gold |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gold »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Gold, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,702 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gold, with forms such as "ggold", "glod", and "godl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "got", "GPL", "gon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Gold, spelled G-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces artistes et intellectuels, souvent juifs, ont bénéficié de l’aide du journaliste Varian Fry, à la tête du Comité américain de secours d’urgence basé à Marseille, et de sa compatriote Mary Jayne Gold, une riche héritière new-yorkaise, pour fuir le nazisme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggold
- glod
- godl
- goldd
- golld
- ogld
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gold - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gold", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).