gueules
\ɡœl\
The verdict
“gueules” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,324
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émail servant à décrire la couleur rouge d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gueules · gueules · French
gueules · rank #9,324 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grey
Nearest frequency peer: grey (-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 « gueules »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gouvernemen…
gouvernementale
90,680 corpus weight
- gouverner
gouverner
90,679 corpus weight
- grey
grey
90,678 corpus weight
- gueules
gueules
90,677 corpus weight
- guider
guider
90,676 corpus weight
- hab
hab
90,674 corpus weight
What this shows « gueules » 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 | gueules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gueules »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gueules (IPA \ɡœl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,324 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Émail servant à décrire la couleur rouge d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gueules, with forms such as "geuules", "ggueules", and "guelues". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gueule", "gaules", "guêpes", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gueules, spelled G-U-E-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Émail servant à décrire la couleur rouge d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gueules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tortil de la couronne baroniale surmonte ce simple écu dont les lignes verticales, employées en sculpture pour représenter les gueules, brillent encore.
Sur le carré du milieu, les armes de la ville étaient représentées au moyen d’artifices floraux et végétaux et M. Abel les redéchiffra mentalement au passage : « Parti de gueules et de sinople aux trois martels d’argent, le chef cousu de France ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geuules
- ggueules
- guelues
- gueuels
- gueuless
- gueulles
- gueulse
- guueles
- ugeules
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gueules - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).