gospel
\ɡɔs.pɛl\
The verdict
“gospel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,462
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant religieux chrétien développé d’abord chez les afro-américains et les blancs du sud des États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gospel · gospel · French
gospel · rank #27,462 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,462
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gnome
Nearest frequency peer: gnome (-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 « gospel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gente
gente
72,543 corpus weight
- glissent
glissent
72,542 corpus weight
- globalité
globalité
72,541 corpus weight
- gnome
gnome
72,540 corpus weight
- gospel
gospel
72,539 corpus weight
- hardware
hardware
72,536 corpus weight
What this shows « gospel » 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 | gospel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɔs.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gospel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gospel (IPA \ɡɔs.pɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,462 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chant religieux chrétien développé d’abord chez les afro-américains et les blancs du sud des États-Unis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gospel, with forms such as "ggospel", "gopsel", and "gosepl". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gosse", "gosses", "goupil", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gospel, spelled G-O-S-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1Chant religieux chrétien développé d’abord chez les afro-américains et les blancs du sud des États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gospel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jazz, blues, gospel : sous ces trois formes différentes, la musique de ces défavorisés venus de terres lointaines demeure l'un des plus beaux fleurons de la Nouvelle-Orléans
Le comité des fêtes de Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire propose ce samedi 20 août, à 19 h, à l’église Saint-Hilaire, un concert de musique celtique, de gospel et de musique du monde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggospel
- gopsel
- gosepl
- gospell
- gosple
- gosppel
- gosspel
- gsopel
- ogspel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gospel - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).