gourmet
\ɡuʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“gourmet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,184
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sait apprécier les vins, en a une bonne connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gourmet · gourmet · French
gourmet · rank #30,184 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,184
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gossip
Nearest frequency peer: gossip (-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 « gourmet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gino
Gino
69,820 corpus weight
- gonna
gonna
69,819 corpus weight
- gossip
gossip
69,818 corpus weight
- gourmet
gourmet
69,817 corpus weight
- gouttière
gouttière
69,816 corpus weight
- gracieuse
gracieuse
69,815 corpus weight
What this shows « gourmet » 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 | gourmet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡuʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gourmet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gourmet (IPA \ɡuʁ.mɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,184 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gourmet, with forms such as "ggourmet", "gorumet", and "goumret". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gourmets", "gourde", "goulet", 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 gourmet, spelled G-O-U-R-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Qui sait apprécier les vins, en a une bonne connaissance.
- 2Qui apporte dans les choses de la table une recherche de délicatesse et de raffinement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gourmet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les autres ne travaillent, au contraire, que pour obtenir des produits abondans, parce que la classe des acheteurs, sur lesquels ils fondent leur spéculation, est toujours assez nombreuse et assez peu gourmette, pour rendre certaine la vente des récoltes les plus abondantes.
Mon estomac, remarquablement conservé, est celui d’une bourgeoise gourmette et gourmande.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggourmet
- gorumet
- goumret
- gouremt
- gourmett
- gourmmet
- gourmte
- gourrmet
- guormet
- ogurmet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gourmet - 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 "gourmet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).