Guérande
\ɡe.ʁɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Guérande” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,823. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,823
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerande · Guérande · French
Guérande · rank #39,823 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,823
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gratification
Nearest frequency peer: gratification (-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 « Guérande »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gouache
gouache
60,182 corpus weight
- grassement
grassement
60,180 corpus weight
- gratificati…
gratification
60,179 corpus weight
- Guérande
Guérande
60,178 corpus weight
- Haller
Haller
60,176 corpus weight
- Hanks
Hanks
60,175 corpus weight
What this shows « Guérande » 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 | Guérande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.ʁɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guérande »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Guérande (IPA \ɡe.ʁɑ̃d\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,823 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guérande, with forms such as "gguérande", "guerande", and "guréande". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "guirlande", "grande", "gérante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Guérande, spelled G-U-É-R-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guérande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je suis allé une fois à Guérande pour tirer à la milice, et suis allé à Savenay pour me faire voir à des messieurs qui m’ont mesuré. Si j’avais eu un pouce de plus, j’étais soldat.
Évidemment cette maison avait été bâtie sur les ruines de quelque petit castel perché là comme un anneau qui rattachait Le Croisic et le bourg de Batz à Guérande, et qui seigneurisait les marais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguérande
- guerande
- guréande
- guéarnde
- guéradne
- guérandde
- guéraned
- guérannde
- guérnade
- guérrande
- géurande
- ugérande
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guérande - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Guérande", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).