golem
\ɡɔ.lɛm\
The verdict
“golem” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,479
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans les légendes juives du Moyen Âge, figure d’argile auquel un rabbin donnait vie pour sauver la communauté des pogroms en inscrivant sur le front de ladite figure le mot אמת, emeth (« vérité ») ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-golem · golem · French
golem · rank #44,479 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,479
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Goldstein
Nearest frequency peer: Goldstein (-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 « golem »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gazer
gazer
55,525 corpus weight
- Georgina
Georgina
55,524 corpus weight
- Goldstein
Goldstein
55,523 corpus weight
- golem
golem
55,522 corpus weight
- gra
gra
55,520 corpus weight
- gradué
gradué
55,519 corpus weight
What this shows « golem » 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 | golem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « golem »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around golem (IPA \ɡɔ.lɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,479 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for golem, with forms such as "ggolem", "gloem", and "goelm". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gone", "golfe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is golem, spelled G-O-L-E-M.
Definition
- 1Dans les légendes juives du Moyen Âge, figure d’argile auquel un rabbin donnait vie pour sauver la communauté des pogroms en inscrivant sur le front de ladite figure le mot אמת, emeth (« vérité ») et que l’on tuait en effaçant la première lettre du mot, formant ainsi le mot מת, meth (« mort »).
- 2Personne sans réflexion, assujettie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how golem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux trous dans la figure du golem inondèrent le jeune homme de lumière rouge.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggolem
- gloem
- goelm
- golemm
- gollem
- golme
- oglem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of golem - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).