gênant
\ʒɛ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“gênant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,837
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui gêne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genant · gênant · French
gênant · rank #7,837 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,837
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grippe
Nearest frequency peer: grippe (-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 « gênant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- games
games
92,167 corpus weight
- gaulois
gaulois
92,166 corpus weight
- grippe
grippe
92,165 corpus weight
- gênant
gênant
92,164 corpus weight
- Haïti
Haïti
92,163 corpus weight
- HD
HD
92,162 corpus weight
What this shows « gênant » 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 | gênant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɛ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gênant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gênant (IPA \ʒɛ.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,837 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gênant, with forms such as "genant", "ggênant", and "gnêant". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gent", "grant", "giant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 gênant, spelled G-Ê-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui gêne.
- 2Embarrassant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gênant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Règle générale : un homme oublie toujours très-vite sa conduite passée, quand il lui serait gênant de s’en souvenir.
Hendri Venter, 62 ans, a capturé des images d’un lion en train de secouer sa crinière afin de se débarrasser de mouches gênantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- genant
- ggênant
- gnêant
- gêannt
- gênannt
- gênantt
- gênatn
- gênnant
- gênnat
- êgnant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gênant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gênant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).