Gunnar
The verdict
“Gunnar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,849
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gunnar · Gunnar · French
Gunnar · rank #37,849 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,849
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guinéenne
Nearest frequency peer: guinéenne (-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 « Gunnar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- GTI
GTI
62,155 corpus weight
- guillot
guillot
62,154 corpus weight
- guinéenne
guinéenne
62,153 corpus weight
- Gunnar
Gunnar
62,152 corpus weight
- hacking
hacking
62,150 corpus weight
- halluciner
halluciner
62,149 corpus weight
What this shows « Gunnar » 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 | Gunnar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gunnar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gunnar, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,849 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gunnar, with forms such as "ggunnar", "gnunar", and "gunanr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Gunners", "Gunn", "gonna", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Gunnar, spelled G-U-N-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gunnar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1964, Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes et son frère avaient trouvé, sous le plancher d’une église, des pièces d’argent, une perle d’ambre et neuf aiguilles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggunnar
- gnunar
- gunanr
- gunar
- gunnarr
- gunnra
- ugnnar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gunnar - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).