golfe
\ɡɔlf\
The verdict
“golfe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,984. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,984
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de mer plus ou moins vaste, qui entre, qui avance dans les terres, et dont l’ouverture du côté de la mer est ordinairement fort large.
Corpus desk
Index FR-golfe · golfe · French
golfe · rank #5,984 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,984
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH green
Nearest frequency peer: green (+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 « golfe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exploiter
exploiter
94,021 corpus weight
- filiale
filiale
94,020 corpus weight
- golfe
golfe
94,017 corpus weight
- green
green
94,016 corpus weight
- générique
générique
94,015 corpus weight
- Hollywood
Hollywood
94,014 corpus weight
What this shows « golfe » 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 | golfe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔlf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « golfe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around golfe (IPA \ɡɔlf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,984 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie de mer plus ou moins vaste, qui entre, qui avance dans les terres, et dont l’ouverture du côté de la mer est ordinairement fort large.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for golfe, with forms such as "ggolfe", "glofe", and "gofle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gone", "gulf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 golfe, spelled G-O-L-F-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de mer plus ou moins vaste, qui entre, qui avance dans les terres, et dont l’ouverture du côté de la mer est ordinairement fort large.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how golfe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais venue m’asseoir près de l’autre fenêtre, et je regardais, moi aussi, le golfe étincelant au soleil du matin, et les montagnes lointaines perdues dans une brume lilacée…
Le surlendemain au petit jour, je passai en vue du cap de Mala et dans la soirée, la couleur bleue de l’eau, indice des grands fonds, m’apprenait ma sortie du golfe de Panama.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggolfe
- glofe
- gofle
- golef
- golffe
- gollfe
- oglfe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of golfe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).