goupil
\ɡu.pil\
The verdict
“goupil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,366
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goupil · goupil · French
goupil · rank #42,366 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,366
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gondole
Nearest frequency peer: gondole (-2 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 « goupil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gigolo
gigolo
57,638 corpus weight
- gondole
gondole
57,637 corpus weight
- goupil
goupil
57,635 corpus weight
- gravitent
gravitent
57,633 corpus weight
- groups
groups
57,632 corpus weight
- grunge
grunge
57,631 corpus weight
What this shows « goupil » 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 | goupil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.pil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « goupil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around goupil (IPA \ɡu.pil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,366 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for goupil, with forms such as "ggoupil", "gopuil", and "gouipl". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "groupie", "gouin", "gospel", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is goupil, spelled G-O-U-P-I-L.
Definition
- 1Renard.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le renard. À rapprocher de chien, levrette, lévrier, loup et renard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goupil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui détermina la chute de gros Zidore et de gros Léon ce fut tout simplement une petite jalousie de chasseurs provoquée par un malheureux renard, un vulgaire goupil, un vieux charbonnier à museau chafouin, à queue pelée […].
Je le guettais depuis plusieurs jours et avant-hier que j’étais posté dans l’étable, du côté qui donne sur l’entrée de la volière, j’avais entrebâillé la porte du haut pour être bien sûr de ne pas manquer le goupil au cas où il rappliquerait.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoupil
- gopuil
- gouipl
- goupill
- goupli
- gouppil
- guopil
- ogupil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goupil - 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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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).