dernier genre
\dɛʁ.nje ʒɑ̃ʁ\
The verdict
“dernier genre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — À la dernière mode.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dernier genre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛʁ.nje ʒɑ̃ʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dernier genre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dernier genre is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛʁ.nje ʒɑ̃ʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "À la dernière mode.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dernier genre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is dernier genre, spelled D-E-R-N-I-E-R- -G-E-N-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1À la dernière mode.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E-R-N-I-E-R- -G-E-N-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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