gymnaste
\ʒim.nast\
The verdict
“gymnaste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,815
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entraineur, dans un gymnase, chargé des athlètes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gymnaste · gymnaste · French
gymnaste · rank #41,815 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,815
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guitaristes
Nearest frequency peer: guitaristes (-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 « gymnaste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grégorien
grégorien
58,189 corpus weight
- guitaristes
guitaristes
58,187 corpus weight
- gymnaste
gymnaste
58,186 corpus weight
- généalogiqu…
généalogiques
58,185 corpus weight
- habitante
habitante
58,184 corpus weight
- habitons
habitons
58,183 corpus weight
What this shows « gymnaste » 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 | gymnaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒim.nast\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gymnaste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around gymnaste (IPA \ʒim.nast\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,815 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gymnaste, with forms such as "ggymnaste", "gmynaste", and "gymanste". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gymnase", "gymnases", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gymnaste, spelled G-Y-M-N-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Entraineur, dans un gymnase, chargé des athlètes.
- 2Sportif pratiquant la gymnastique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gymnaste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s’y prit exactement comme un gymnaste qui répète un exercice avec sa partenaire, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggymnaste
- gmynaste
- gymanste
- gymmnaste
- gymnaset
- gymnasste
- gymnastte
- gymnatse
- gymnnaste
- gymnsate
- gynmaste
- gyymnaste
- ygmnaste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gymnaste - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gymnaste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).