general
\ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹəl\
The verdict
“general” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,195
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Général.
Corpus desk
Index FR-general · general · French
general · rank #6,195 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,195
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH flic
Nearest frequency peer: flic (-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 « general »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fichiers
fichiers
93,809 corpus weight
- figurent
figurent
93,808 corpus weight
- flic
flic
93,807 corpus weight
- general
general
93,806 corpus weight
- group
group
93,805 corpus weight
- guise
guise
93,804 corpus weight
What this shows « general » 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 | general |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « general »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around general (IPA \ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹəl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,195 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Général.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for general, with forms such as "egneral", "geenral", and "genearl". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "génial", "Geneva", "générer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is general, spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Général.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egneral
- geenral
- genearl
- generall
- generla
- generral
- genneral
- genreal
- ggeneral
- gneeral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of general - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).