Guilbert
\gil.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“Guilbert” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,117
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guilbert · Guilbert · French
Guilbert · rank #49,117 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,117
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gregorio
Nearest frequency peer: Gregorio (-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 « Guilbert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- golfeurs
golfeurs
50,887 corpus weight
- goélette
goélette
50,886 corpus weight
- Gregorio
Gregorio
50,885 corpus weight
- Guilbert
Guilbert
50,884 corpus weight
- gulliver
gulliver
50,883 corpus weight
- gériatrie
gériatrie
50,882 corpus weight
What this shows « Guilbert » 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 | Guilbert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \gil.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guilbert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Guilbert (IPA \gil.bɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,117 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guilbert, with forms such as "gguilbert", "giulbert", and "guiblert". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gibert", "Gilbert", "Guibert", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Guilbert, spelled G-U-I-L-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guilbert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y admire des Besnard remarquables ; une Yvette Guilbert très dame, très comme il faut, très visite, de Blanche ; un charmant portrait par Doucet, de la fillette de notre confrère Meurville, et des Chéret qui feu-d'artificent par-dessus les moulins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguilbert
- giulbert
- guiblert
- guilbbert
- guilberrt
- guilbertt
- guilbetr
- guilbret
- guilebrt
- guillbert
- gulibert
- ugilbert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guilbert - 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
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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).