gourmands
\ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“gourmands” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,880
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de gourmand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gourmands · gourmands · French
gourmands · rank #22,880 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,880
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grandeurs
Nearest frequency peer: grandeurs (+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 « gourmands »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- germes
germes
77,125 corpus weight
- going
going
77,123 corpus weight
- gourmands
gourmands
77,121 corpus weight
- grandeurs
grandeurs
77,120 corpus weight
- graphe
graphe
77,119 corpus weight
- généreuses
généreuses
77,117 corpus weight
What this shows « gourmands » 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 | gourmands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gourmands »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gourmands (IPA \ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,880 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de gourmand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gourmands, with forms such as "ggourmands", "gorumands", and "goumrands". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gourmand", "gourmande", "gourmandes", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gourmands, spelled G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de gourmand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gourmands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes excessivement gourmands de fruits, nous surveillons nos montreuils, nos couches, nos espaliers, nos quenouilles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggourmands
- gorumands
- goumrands
- gouramnds
- gourmadns
- gourmandds
- gourmandss
- gourmannds
- gourmansd
- gourmmands
- gourmnads
- gourrmands
- guormands
- ogurmands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gourmands - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).