guirlande
\ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\
The verdict
“guirlande” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,424
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne, feston de fleurs ou de feuillage, ou de leur imitation synthétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guirlande · guirlande · French
guirlande · rank #32,424 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,424
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimaces
Nearest frequency peer: grimaces (-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 « guirlande »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Granby
Granby
67,580 corpus weight
- graphite
graphite
67,579 corpus weight
- grimaces
grimaces
67,578 corpus weight
- guirlande
guirlande
67,577 corpus weight
- Gustavo
Gustavo
67,576 corpus weight
- guérisseur
guérisseur
67,575 corpus weight
What this shows « guirlande » 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 | guirlande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guirlande »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around guirlande (IPA \ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,424 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for guirlande, with forms such as "gguirlande", "giurlande", and "guilrande". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "guirlandes", "Guérande", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 guirlande, spelled G-U-I-R-L-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Chaîne, feston de fleurs ou de feuillage, ou de leur imitation synthétique.
- 2Ce qui, par la manière dont elle est assemblée ou disposée, imite des festons, des guirlandes.
- 3Ornements de feuillages, de fleurs ou de fruits dont les sculpteurs et les peintres décorent les bâtiments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guirlande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les jeunes gens qui venaient la voir l'appelaient Chrysé comme Aphrodite, dans les vers qu'ils mettaient à sa porte, avec des guirlandes de roses, le matin.
Les pauvres bêtes apeurées, se refusaient à avancer. Deux femmes les tiraient par des guirlandes de papier de couleur dont on les avait enrubannés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguirlande
- giurlande
- guilrande
- guiralnde
- guirladne
- guirlandde
- guirlaned
- guirlannde
- guirllande
- guirlnade
- guirrlande
- gurilande
- ugirlande
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guirlande - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).