golem
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,479
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
golem is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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 ») ... Pronounced \ɡɔ.lɛm\. Often confused with gore and gone.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for golem is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔ.lɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,479 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for golem, with forms such as "ggolem", "gloem", and "goelm". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gone", "golfe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is golem, spelled G-O-L-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggolem,gloem,goelm,golemm,gollem,golme,oglem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for golem
Misspelling Variants of "golem"
Frequency rank: #44,479 in French
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