gemma
\ʒɛ.ma\
The verdict
“gemma” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,516
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de gemmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gemma · gemma · French
gemma · rank #31,516 · 5 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,516
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GC
Nearest frequency peer: GC (-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 « gemma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- garnisons
garnisons
68,489 corpus weight
- garous
garous
68,488 corpus weight
- Gayet
Gayet
68,487 corpus weight
- GC
GC
68,486 corpus weight
- gemma
gemma
68,485 corpus weight
- gemmes
gemmes
68,484 corpus weight
What this shows « gemma » 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 | gemma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒɛ.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gemma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gemma (IPA \ʒɛ.ma\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,516 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de gemmer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gemma, with forms such as "egmma", "gema", and "gemam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "goma", "gomme", "germe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 gemma, spelled G-E-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de gemmer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egmma
- gema
- gemam
- ggemma
- gmema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gemma - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).