geek
\ɡik\
The verdict
“geek” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,227
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne prise par une passion, à l’origine dans le domaine de la high-tech, puis par extension dans n’importe quel domaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geek · geek · French
geek · rank #11,227 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,227
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gazon
Nearest frequency peer: gazon (-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 « geek »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gaule
gaule
88,777 corpus weight
- Gautier
Gautier
88,776 corpus weight
- gazon
gazon
88,775 corpus weight
- geek
geek
88,774 corpus weight
- habituer
habituer
88,773 corpus weight
- his
his
88,771 corpus weight
What this shows « geek » 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 | geek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « geek »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around geek (IPA \ɡik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,227 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for geek, with forms such as "egek", "geekk", and "gek". 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, "gré", "gel", "get", 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. The correct French form is geek, spelled G-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1Personne prise par une passion, à l’origine dans le domaine de la high-tech, puis par extension dans n’importe quel domaine.
- 2Technophile féru d’informatique.
- 3Personne érudite dans un domaine ésotérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Façon d'être, mode de vie, philosophie du geek ou de la geekette, qui implique une dévotion quasi fanatique aux nouvelles technologies, et optionnellement une addiction aux meuporgs et une connaissance encyclopédique de tous les personnages secondaires de Star Wars ou du Seigneur des anneaux.
Le geek est généralement une source intarissable de connaissances et il adore répondre aux questions, ce qui le rend très amusant et compatible avec les enfants.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egek
- geekk
- gek
- geke
- ggeek
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of geek - 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 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 "geek", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).