gentes
[ˈxẽn̪t̪es]
The verdict
“gentes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,665
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de personas, en particular si pertenecen al pueblo común, a un grupo específico o a un grupo diferente a aquel con el que se identifica el hablante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gentes · gentes · Spanish
gentes · rank #8,665 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH grand
Nearest frequency peer: grand (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “gentes”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- forzado
forzado
91,339 corpus weight
- freno
freno
91,338 corpus weight
- gentes
gentes
91,336 corpus weight
- grand
grand
91,335 corpus weight
- if
if
91,334 corpus weight
- incorporar
incorporar
91,333 corpus weight
What this shows “gentes” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | gentes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxẽn̪t̪es] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gentes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gentes (IPA [ˈxẽn̪t̪es]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,665 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Conjunto de personas, en particular si pertenecen al pueblo común, a un grupo específico o a un grupo diferente a aquel con el que se identifica el hablante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentes, with forms such as "egntes", "genets", and "genntes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ginés", "gestos", "gentil", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is gentes, spelled G-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de personas, en particular si pertenecen al pueblo común, a un grupo específico o a un grupo diferente a aquel con el que se identifica el hablante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gentes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se iba a transformar la condición de la actividad pesquera y de las gentes dedicadas a ella.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntes
- genets
- genntes
- gentess
- gentse
- genttes
- getnes
- ggentes
- gnetes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentes - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gentes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).