guillemot

\ɡij.mo\

/\ɡij.mo\/ noun

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The verdict

“guillemot” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,646. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,646
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un genre d’oiseaux palmipèdes plongeurs des genres Uria et Cepphus nichant en colonies sur les côtes Arctiques et Atlantiques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guillemot · guillemot · French

guillemot · rank #45,646 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,646
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH guillemette

Nearest frequency peer: guillemette (-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 « guillemot »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « guillemot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

guillemot vs guillot
78% similar
guillemot vs Guillermo
67% similar
guillemot vs guillemets
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for guillemot
PropertyValue
Headwordguillemot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡij.mo\
Letters9
Frequency rank#45,646
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guillemot »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).guillemotse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « guillemette » (#45,645), « génitale » (#45,647), « grossis » (#45,644). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guillemot » est au #45,646. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around guillemot (IPA \ɡij.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,646 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for guillemot, with forms such as "gguillemot", "giullemot", and "guilelmot". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "guillot", "Guillermo", "guillemets", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guillemot, spelled G-U-I-L-L-E-M-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’un genre d’oiseaux palmipèdes plongeurs des genres Uria et Cepphus nichant en colonies sur les côtes Arctiques et Atlantiques.
  2. 2
    Variété de raisin ^([1]).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how guillemot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Allons, se dit-il, la chasse aux guillemots est captivante, la roche où on les massacre est lointaine…
  2. Le guillemot, reconnaissable à ses pattes orange et à son cri lugubre, passa comme une flèche au-dessus du currach.

This word in other languages

murre(English)Lumme(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gguillemot
  • giullemot
  • guilelmot
  • guilemot
  • guillemmot
  • guillemott
  • guillemto
  • guilleomt
  • guillmeot
  • gulilemot
  • ugillemot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guillemot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

gguillemot1giullemot2guilelmot2guilemot1guillemmot1guillemott1guillemto2guilleomt2
Edit distance from "guillemot"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guillemot"?
"guillemot" is spelled G-U-I-L-L-E-M-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡij.mo\.
What does "guillemot" mean?
As a noun, "guillemot" means: Nom d’un genre d’oiseaux palmipèdes plongeurs des genres Uria et Cepphus nichant en colonies sur les côtes Arctiques et Atlantiques.
What words are commonly confused with "guillemot"?
"guillemot" is commonly confused with "guillot", "Guillermo", "guillemets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guillemot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guillemot" is \ɡij.mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guillemot" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guillemot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

habituées#45,649garderais#45,635homonymes#45,657hydrolyse#45,661

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

grimoire11 variantsHodgson11 variantsfarfelue11 variantsensuivit11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list