gender
\dʒɛn.døʁ\
The verdict
“gender” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,457. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,457
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de métallophone qui est utilisé principalement dans le gamelan balinais et javanais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gender · gender · French
gender · rank #27,457 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,457
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaspé
Nearest frequency peer: Gaspé (-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 « gender »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gamers
gamers
72,547 corpus weight
- gangsters
gangsters
72,546 corpus weight
- Gaspé
Gaspé
72,545 corpus weight
- gender
gender
72,544 corpus weight
- gente
gente
72,543 corpus weight
- glissent
glissent
72,542 corpus weight
What this shows « gender » 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 | gender |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛn.døʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gender »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gender (IPA \dʒɛn.døʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,457 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Type de métallophone qui est utilisé principalement dans le gamelan balinais et javanais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gender, with forms such as "egnder", "gedner", and "gendder". 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, "gène", "genre", "génie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gender, spelled G-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Type de métallophone qui est utilisé principalement dans le gamelan balinais et javanais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gamelan n’utilise que des instruments à percussion. Des gongs, des tambours sourds (le kendang), des pots de métal (le trompong), des plaques de métal (le gender), des métallophones.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnder
- gedner
- gendder
- genderr
- genedr
- gennder
- ggender
- gneder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gender - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "gender"?
What does "gender" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "gender"?
How do you pronounce "gender"?
What language does "gender" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gender", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).