gendarmes
\ʒɑ̃.daʁm\
The verdict
“gendarmes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,962
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gendarme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gendarmes · gendarmes · French
gendarmes · rank #6,962 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,962
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gel
Nearest frequency peer: gel (-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 « gendarmes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- formée
formée
93,042 corpus weight
- gagnent
gagnent
93,041 corpus weight
- gel
gel
93,040 corpus weight
- gendarmes
gendarmes
93,039 corpus weight
- grandement
grandement
93,038 corpus weight
- infini
infini
93,036 corpus weight
What this shows « gendarmes » 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 | gendarmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.daʁm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gendarmes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gendarmes (IPA \ʒɑ̃.daʁm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,962 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gendarme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gendarmes, with forms such as "egndarmes", "gednarmes", and "genadrmes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gendarme", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 gendarmes, spelled G-E-N-D-A-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gendarme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gendarmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’accès en est impossible. Des clôtures hargneuses le gardent ; des montants de fer, aux pointes aiguës, reliés par tout un hérissement de ronces artificielles le défendent mieux qu’un cordon de gendarmes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egndarmes
- gednarmes
- genadrmes
- gendamres
- gendarems
- gendarmess
- gendarmmes
- gendarmse
- gendarrmes
- genddarmes
- gendrames
- genndarmes
- ggendarmes
- gnedarmes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gendarmes - 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 "gendarmes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).