gène
\ʒɛn\
The verdict
“gène” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,016
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de base de l’information biologique qui se transmet de génération en génération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gene · gène · French
gène · rank #9,016 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,016
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guérison
Nearest frequency peer: guérison (-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 « gène »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- graisse
graisse
90,989 corpus weight
- gratte
gratte
90,988 corpus weight
- gratuites
gratuites
90,987 corpus weight
- guérison
guérison
90,986 corpus weight
- gène
gène
90,985 corpus weight
- habitués
habitués
90,983 corpus weight
What this shows « gène » 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 | gène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gène »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gène (IPA \ʒɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,016 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de base de l’information biologique qui se transmet de génération en génération.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gène, with forms such as "gene", "ggène", and "gnèe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GN", "gré", "get", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gène, spelled G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de base de l’information biologique qui se transmet de génération en génération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les géniteurs de résistance au froid : « Champagne » et « Austria Winter » renferment le plus grand nombre de gènes récessifs. Les pois d'hiver actuels en possèdent moins et les pois de printemps en sont pratiquement dépourvus.
La variation d’un seul acide aminé dans le gène qui code pour l’enzyme COMT, un médiateur qui métabolise la dopamine et la noradrénaline, produit une différence suffisamment importante dans cette enzyme pour modifier la résistance à la douleur et de là influer sur le courage d’une personne.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gene
- ggène
- gnèe
- gèen
- gènne
- ègne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gène - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).