gilletvsguillotWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: gillet is a verb, guillot is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“gillet” is a verb and “guillot” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,666
“gillet” frequency rank
#37,847
“guillot” frequency rank
63513
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gillet guillot
Definition Avoir envie de, faire l’effort de. Monnaie de très petite valeur que Jean, comte de Foix, fit battre à Pamiers au quatorzième siècle.

Letter map: gillet vs guillot

Shared letters muted; letters that set gillet and guillot apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
gillet
7 ch
guillot

Part-of-speech tell for gillet / guillot

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gillet is averb and guillotanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63513, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gillet is recorded at frequency rank #25,666, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈɡil:et/. guillot is at rank #37,847, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 63513, this pair ranks #81,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of gillet vs guillot

Shared letters: gilt. Private to "gillet": e. Private to "guillot": ou.

"gillet" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "guillot" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gilletggillet · gilelt · gillett · gillte · glilet · igllet
  • guillotgguillot · giullot · guillott · guillto · guilolt · guilot · gulilot · ugillot

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "gillet" and "guillot" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gillet" is a verb and "guillot" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "gillet" or "guillot"?
"gillet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,666 in our French list, against #37,847 for "guillot". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "gillet" vs "guillot" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gillet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guillot" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #81,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gillet" and "guillot" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guillot vs Guillou". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #81,583 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list