Guyane
\ɡɥi.jan\
The verdict
“Guyane” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,175
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région du nord-est de l’Amérique du Sud s’étendant de l’Orénoque au Venezuela jusqu’au delta de l’Amazone au Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guyane · Guyane · French
Guyane · rank #9,175 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guides
Nearest frequency peer: guides (-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 « Guyane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Greg
Greg
90,828 corpus weight
- guides
guides
90,827 corpus weight
- Guyane
Guyane
90,826 corpus weight
- honorer
honorer
90,825 corpus weight
- indigènes
indigènes
90,824 corpus weight
- innovations
innovations
90,823 corpus weight
What this shows « Guyane » 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 | Guyane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɥi.jan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guyane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Guyane (IPA \ɡɥi.jan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,175 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guyane, with forms such as "gguyane", "guayne", and "guyaen". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Guyon", "Guyenne", "glane", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Guyane, spelled G-U-Y-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Région du nord-est de l’Amérique du Sud s’étendant de l’Orénoque au Venezuela jusqu’au delta de l’Amazone au Brésil.
- 2Département d’outre-mer français situé au nord-est de l’Amérique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guyane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une partie des sédiments amazoniens repris par le courant des Guyanes s’accumule en crème de vase plus ou moins fluide et forme des bancs larges de 10 à 20 km qui se déplacent le long de la côte ; le reste est surtout en suspension.
Juste au moment du 18 brumaire, Burnel se faisait renvoyer de Guyane par les colons, sous l’accusation de négrophilie : en réalité, à un moment où la colonie étant menacée par les Anglais, il envisageait d’armer les Noirs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguyane
- guayne
- guyaen
- guyanne
- guynae
- guyyane
- gyuane
- ugyane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guyane - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).