gypse
\ʒips\
The verdict
“gypse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,872
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce minérale composée de sulfate de calcium hydraté de formule brute CaSO₄, 2(H₂O).
Corpus desk
Index FR-gypse · gypse · French
gypse · rank #36,872 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,872
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GW
Nearest frequency peer: GW (-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 « gypse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- guimauve
guimauve
63,132 corpus weight
- guyanais
guyanais
63,131 corpus weight
- GW
GW
63,130 corpus weight
- gypse
gypse
63,129 corpus weight
- hadith
hadith
63,128 corpus weight
- hadji
hadji
63,127 corpus weight
What this shows « gypse » 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 | gypse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒips\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gypse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gypse (IPA \ʒips\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,872 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 gypse, with forms such as "ggypse", "gpyse", and "gypes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "GPS", "gosse", "guise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gypse, spelled G-Y-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce minérale composée de sulfate de calcium hydraté de formule brute CaSO₄, 2(H₂O).
- 2Roche évaporitique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gypse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Constituées par des assises marneuses de coloration variable alternant avec des calcaires dolomitiques plus ou moins compacts, des grès ou même du gypse, les collines du Keuper présentent des flancs à pente raide, parfois ravinés par les eaux.
Le problème de l’excès de sel se pose dans de nombreux périmètres irrigués des régions sèches. Leur amélioration peut se faire par des apports de gypse ou de phosphogypse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggypse
- gpyse
- gypes
- gyppse
- gypsse
- gyspe
- gyypse
- ygpse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gypse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gypse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).