Guillon
\gi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“Guillon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,533
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guillon · Guillon · French
Guillon · rank #35,533 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,533
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guibert
Nearest frequency peer: Guibert (-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 « Guillon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grillées
grillées
64,472 corpus weight
- guerrières
guerrières
64,471 corpus weight
- guetter
guetter
64,470 corpus weight
- Guibert
Guibert
64,469 corpus weight
- Guillon
Guillon
64,468 corpus weight
- gît
gît
64,466 corpus weight
What this shows « Guillon » 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 | Guillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \gi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guillon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Guillon (IPA \gi.jɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,533 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guillon, with forms such as "gguillon", "giullon", and "guillno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "guillot", "Guillou", "guidon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Guillon, spelled G-U-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au petit matin, les permanents du secteur non alimentaire s’installent avant les marchands ponctuels ; Marc Assouline et Nathalie Guillon font partie de la soixantaine de vendeurs permanents du marché ; Noëlle Navarrete est placière au marché de Rochefort depuis 2017 ; Yann Lannemajou encaisse les marchands non-permanents.
La chanteuse Vitaa, l’animateur de radio Bruno Guillon, des joueurs du PSG : de nombreuses personnalités connues ont récemment été victimes de « home-jackings ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguillon
- giullon
- guillno
- guillonn
- guiloln
- guilon
- gulilon
- ugillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guillon - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).