Guernesey
\ɡɛʁ.nə.zɛ\
The verdict
“Guernesey” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,364
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la Manche, une des îles Anglo-Normandes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guernesey · Guernesey · French
Guernesey · rank #47,364 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,364
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grognement
Nearest frequency peer: grognement (-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 « Guernesey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grenache
grenache
52,640 corpus weight
- grillon
grillon
52,639 corpus weight
- grognement
grognement
52,638 corpus weight
- Guernesey
Guernesey
52,637 corpus weight
- Guizot
Guizot
52,636 corpus weight
- génocidaire
génocidaire
52,635 corpus weight
What this shows « Guernesey » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guernesey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ.nə.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guernesey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Guernesey (IPA \ɡɛʁ.nə.zɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,364 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guernesey, with forms such as "geurnesey", "gguernesey", and "guenresey". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Guernesey, spelled G-U-E-R-N-E-S-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Île de la Manche, une des îles Anglo-Normandes.
- 2Bailliage de Guernesey : Dépendance de la Couronne britannique constituée principalement de cette île.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geurnesey
- gguernesey
- guenresey
- guerensey
- guerneesy
- guerneseyy
- guernessey
- guernesye
- guernnesey
- guernseey
- guerrnesey
- gurenesey
- ugernesey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guernesey - 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).
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