gone
\ɡɔn\
The verdict
“gone” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,383
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant, gosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gone · gone · French
gone · rank #26,383 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,383
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glossaire
Nearest frequency peer: glossaire (-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 « gone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gisèle
Gisèle
73,621 corpus weight
- glossaire
glossaire
73,619 corpus weight
- gone
gone
73,618 corpus weight
- grenadiers
grenadiers
73,617 corpus weight
- grossesses
grossesses
73,616 corpus weight
- grossit
grossit
73,615 corpus weight
What this shows « gone » 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 | gone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gone (IPA \ɡɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,383 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gone, with forms such as "ggone", "gnoe", and "goen". 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, "gré", "got", "gun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gone, spelled G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Enfant, gosse.
- 2Lyonnais.
- 3But, cochonnet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce terme de Gone, qui servait alors à désigner à Lyon ce que l’on appelle aujourd’hui à Paris le gamin, était, suivant l’intention de ceux qui l’employaient vis-à-vis de Georges, un titre presque glorieux ou une injure.
L’influence de la trique de ce bon petit Guignol se fera sentir : Su l’échine des anes de Brindas, Chaponost et autres lieux ; […] Su les ménages que s’empognent par la tignasse ; Su Jean que rigole, quand gn’a l’autre Jean que pleurniche ; Su les petits gones que se fourrent les doigts dans le nez ; […] Enfin, su toute la clique que compose le tas d’esqu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggone
- gnoe
- goen
- gonne
- ogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gone - 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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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).