Gustavo

name

The verdict

“Gustavo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,425
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, correspondant à Gustave.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gustavo · Gustavo · French

Gustavo · rank #32,425 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,425
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH guirlande

Nearest frequency peer: guirlande (-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 « Gustavo »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Gustavo » 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).

Gustavo vs Gustav
86% similar
Gustavo vs Gustave
86% similar
Gustavo vs Gestapo
71% similar

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

Key facts for Gustavo
PropertyValue
HeadwordGustavo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#32,425
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gustavo »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Gustavose place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « guirlande » (#32,424), « guérisseur » (#32,426), « grimaces » (#32,423). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Gustavo » est au #32,425. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Gustavo, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,425 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, correspondant à Gustave.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gustavo, with forms such as "ggustavo", "gsutavo", and "gusatvo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Gustav", "Gustave", "Gestapo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Gustavo, spelled G-U-S-T-A-V-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin, correspondant à Gustave.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le tout est servi par la bande originale de Gustavo Santaolalla, lauréat de deux Oscars de la meilleure musique de film.
  2. Depuis que Gustavo Petro est devenu chef de l’État, l’avion présidentiel qui sillonne le monde sert également à rapatrier le patrimoine archéologique colombien disséminé à l’étranger.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ggustavo
  • gsutavo
  • gusatvo
  • gusstavo
  • gustaov
  • gustavvo
  • gusttavo
  • gustvao
  • gutsavo
  • ugstavo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gustavo - 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.

ggustavo1gsutavo2gusatvo2gusstavo1gustaov2gustavvo1gusttavo1gustvao2
Edit distance from "Gustavo"

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 "Gustavo"?
"Gustavo" is spelled G-U-S-T-A-V-O.
What does "Gustavo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Gustavo" means: Prénom masculin, correspondant à Gustave.
What words are commonly confused with "Gustavo"?
"Gustavo" is commonly confused with "Gustav", "Gustave", "Gestapo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Gustavo" come from?
"Gustavo" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list