gen
\ɡɛ̃\
The verdict
“gen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,890) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,890
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue gbe parlée dans le sud-est du Togo et dans la province de Mono au Bénin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gen · gen · French
gen · rank #15,890 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,890
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garderie
Nearest frequency peer: garderie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gen »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fusées
fusées
84,114 corpus weight
- fuyant
fuyant
84,113 corpus weight
- garderie
garderie
84,112 corpus weight
- gen
gen
84,111 corpus weight
- Gervais
Gervais
84,110 corpus weight
- glamour
glamour
84,108 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gen » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | gen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gen »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gen is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡɛ̃\. Frequency #15,890 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Langue gbe parlée dans le sud-est du Togo et dans la province de Mono au Bénin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gen, spelled G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Langue gbe parlée dans le sud-est du Togo et dans la province de Mono au Bénin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gen est apparenté à l’éwé, parlé au Togo et au Ghana, mais contrairement à l’éwé, qui bénéficie d'une standardisation académique, le gen est essentiellement une langue orale, véhiculaire et commerciale.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).