gendre
\ʒɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“gendre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,178
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le mari de la fille ou du fils de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gendre · gendre · French
gendre · rank #13,178 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gagnez
Nearest frequency peer: gagnez (-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 « gendre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fours
fours
86,826 corpus weight
- féroce
féroce
86,825 corpus weight
- gagnez
gagnez
86,824 corpus weight
- gendre
gendre
86,823 corpus weight
- gravures
gravures
86,822 corpus weight
- grossier
grossier
86,821 corpus weight
What this shows « gendre » 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 | gendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gendre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gendre (IPA \ʒɑ̃dʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,178 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Le mari de la fille ou du fils de quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gendre, with forms such as "egndre", "gednre", and "genddre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "gène", "gere", "genre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 gendre, spelled G-E-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le mari de la fille ou du fils de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pibrac allait criant partout: « Un homme à la mer! » quand il était question d'Hervé promu à la dignité de gendre d'un capitaliste.
Un réconfort moral nous attendait pourtant là-bas puisque nous y avons retrouvé des Vouzinois, une dame accompagnée de sa fille et de son gendre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egndre
- gednre
- genddre
- gendrre
- genndre
- genrde
- ggendre
- gnedre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gendre - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gendre", 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).