gould
\ɡəʊld\
The verdict
“gould” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,842
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de gold (or)
Corpus desk
Index FR-gould · gould · French
gould · rank #37,842 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,842
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goujon
Nearest frequency peer: goujon (-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 « gould »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gobert
Gobert
62,161 corpus weight
- goujon
goujon
62,160 corpus weight
- gould
gould
62,159 corpus weight
- gousses
gousses
62,158 corpus weight
- gravelines
gravelines
62,157 corpus weight
- gronder
gronder
62,156 corpus weight
What this shows « gould » 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 | gould |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡəʊld\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gould »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gould (IPA \ɡəʊld\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,842 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de gold (or)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gould, with forms such as "ggould", "golud", and "goudl". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "goût", "gulf", "goûts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gould, spelled G-O-U-L-D.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de gold (or)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggould
- golud
- goudl
- gouldd
- goulld
- guold
- oguld
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gould - 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
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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).