gentil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,346
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
gentil is anSpanishadj. It means: Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un grupo de gentes distinto del del hablante. Pronounced [xẽn̪ˈt̪il]. Often confused with gentío and gentiles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [xẽn̪ˈt̪il] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gentil is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xẽn̪ˈt̪il]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,346 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for gentil, with forms such as "egntil", "genitl", and "genntil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gentío", "gentiles", "gente", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is gentil, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un grupo de gentes distinto del del hablante.
- 2En particular, no judío.
- 3En particular, que profesa una religión no judeocristiana.
- 4En particular, propio de, relativo o perteneciente a los habitantes de la época preincaica.
- 5Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a la nobleza.
- 6Que muestra singular excelencia en alguno de sus rasgos, en especial en sentido moral.
- 7En particular, dicho de una persona, de carácter amable y cortés.
- 8Dicho de una persona, físicamente] atractiva.
- 9Por extensión, que llama la atención por algún rasgo excepcional.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egntil,genitl,genntil,gentill,gentli,genttil,getnil,ggentil,gnetil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gentil
Misspelling Variants of "gentil"
Frequency rank: #16,346 in Spanish
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