gouverneurs
\ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“gouverneurs” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,789
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gouverneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouverneurs · gouverneurs · French
gouverneurs · rank #12,789 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,789
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gouffre
Nearest frequency peer: gouffre (-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 « gouverneurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- formuler
formuler
87,215 corpus weight
- germanique
germanique
87,214 corpus weight
- gouffre
gouffre
87,213 corpus weight
- gouverneurs
gouverneurs
87,212 corpus weight
- grossir
grossir
87,211 corpus weight
- guilde
guilde
87,210 corpus weight
What this shows « gouverneurs » 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 | gouverneurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gouverneurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around gouverneurs (IPA \ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,789 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gouverneur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for gouverneurs, with forms such as "ggouverneurs", "gouevrneurs", and "gouvenreurs". 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, "gouverner", "gouverneur", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gouverneurs, spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gouverneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gouverneurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une sorte de malin de village au verbe délié, qui joue les innocents, comme sa traduction phonétique, le Ouin-Ouin vaudois, pour mieux rouler alcades et gouverneurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggouverneurs
- gouevrneurs
- gouvenreurs
- gouverenurs
- gouvernerus
- gouverneurrs
- gouverneurss
- gouverneusr
- gouvernneurs
- gouvernuers
- gouverrneurs
- gouvreneurs
- gouvverneurs
- govuerneurs
- guoverneurs
- oguverneurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gouverneurs - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).