gouin
\ɡwɛ̃\
The verdict
“gouin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,979
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matelot d’une mauvaise tenue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouin · gouin · French
gouin · rank #31,979 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,979
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goose
Nearest frequency peer: goose (-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 « gouin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gisant
gisant
68,025 corpus weight
- Goodman
Goodman
68,024 corpus weight
- goose
goose
68,023 corpus weight
- gouin
gouin
68,022 corpus weight
- Gourcuff
Gourcuff
68,021 corpus weight
- graduelle
graduelle
68,020 corpus weight
What this shows « gouin » 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 | gouin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gouin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gouin (IPA \ɡwɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,979 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gouin, with forms such as "ggouin", "goiun", and "gouinn". 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, "gun", "gui", "goût", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 gouin, spelled G-O-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Matelot d’une mauvaise tenue.
- 2Homme trans se qualifiant lesbienne — ou lesbien — et se revendiquant du lesbianisme ; le lesbianisme n’est alors plus que considéré comme une identité en dépit de toute analyse des conditions sociales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gouin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont les vieux pouillards, les gouines et les gouins. Hommes ou femmes, tous des dégaines pareilles !
Nous les transmascgouinbutchpédépxtesalope généralement on ne sait pas ce qu’on veut.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggouin
- goiun
- gouinn
- gouni
- guoin
- oguin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gouin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gouin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).