goudron
\ɡu.dʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“goudron” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,225
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résine noirâtre pour calfater les navires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goudron · goudron · French
goudron · rank #23,225 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,225
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Goethe
Nearest frequency peer: Goethe (-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 « goudron »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- germaniques
germaniques
76,779 corpus weight
- goal
goal
76,778 corpus weight
- Goethe
Goethe
76,777 corpus weight
- goudron
goudron
76,776 corpus weight
- government
government
76,775 corpus weight
- gravées
gravées
76,774 corpus weight
What this shows « goudron » 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 | goudron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.dʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « goudron »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around goudron (IPA \ɡu.dʁɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,225 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for goudron, with forms such as "ggoudron", "goduron", and "gouddron". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gourou", "goujon", "Gordon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is goudron, spelled G-O-U-D-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Résine noirâtre pour calfater les navires.
- 2Matière noirâtre, liquide et gluante, exhalant une odeur forte et aromatique, que l’on retire des combustibles naturels quand on les chauffe à une haute température et à l’abri de l’air.
- 3Produit pharmaceutique, à base de goudron.
- 4Revêtement bitumineux de nombreuses chaussées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goudron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque les pins sont vieux, on leur coupe l'écorce, on leur fait des incisions, & il en coule une liqueur noirâtre, qui est le goudron, dont on enduit les vaisseaux.
Enfin, comme à dessein de le rendre plus complexe, des odeurs de caroube, de denrées coloniales, de goudron, d'air marin arrivaient puissamment du port et se mêlaient à celles qui montaient des pavés et des caves.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoudron
- goduron
- gouddron
- goudorn
- goudrno
- goudronn
- goudrron
- gourdon
- guodron
- ogudron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goudron - 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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