gourous

\ɡu.ʁu\

/\ɡu.ʁu\/ noun

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The verdict

“gourous” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,921. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,921
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gourou.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gourous · gourous · French

gourous · rank #47,921 · 9 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,921
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gods

Nearest frequency peer: gods (-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 « gourous »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gourous » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gourous vs gourou
86% similar
gourous vs garous
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gourous
PropertyValue
Headwordgourous
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡu.ʁu\
Letters7
Frequency rank#47,921
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gourous »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gourousse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gods » (#47,920), « graisser » (#47,923), « GNL » (#47,918). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gourous » est au #47,921. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around gourous (IPA \ɡu.ʁu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,921 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gourou.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gourous, with forms such as "ggourous", "goruous", and "gouorus". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gourou", "garous", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gourous, spelled G-O-U-R-O-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de gourou.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gourous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour Nehru, en effet, irréligieux, agnostique, déshindouisé par son éducation britannique et par sa volonté de l’être, la religion n’intervenait dans son analyse que comme un « fait social », comparable à ce que l’on pouvait trouver dans les sociétés occidentales étudiées par ses maîtres, ses « gourous », les doctrinaires du socialisme.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ggourous
  • goruous
  • gouorus
  • gourosu
  • gourouss
  • gourrous
  • gouruos
  • guorous
  • ogurous

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gourous - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ggourous1goruous2gouorus2gourosu2gourouss1gourrous1gouruos2guorous2
Edit distance from "gourous"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gourous"?
"gourous" is spelled G-O-U-R-O-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡu.ʁu\.
What does "gourous" mean?
As a noun, "gourous" means: Pluriel de gourou.
What words are commonly confused with "gourous"?
"gourous" is commonly confused with "gourou", "garous". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gourous"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gourous" is \ɡu.ʁu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gourous" come from?
"gourous" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gourous", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gratton#47,924greffon#47,925himself#47,939fibrose#47,897

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

gicler9 variantshaltes9 variantshigher9 variantsFayçal9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list