générer
\ʒe.ne.ʁe\
The verdict
“générer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,716
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Donner corps à, engendrer, donner naissance à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-generer · générer · French
générer · rank #8,716 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gage
Nearest frequency peer: gage (-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 « générer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fracture
fracture
91,288 corpus weight
- fusillade
fusillade
91,287 corpus weight
- gage
gage
91,286 corpus weight
- générer
générer
91,285 corpus weight
- générosité
générosité
91,284 corpus weight
- habitent
habitent
91,283 corpus weight
What this shows « générer » 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 | générer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒe.ne.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « générer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around générer (IPA \ʒe.ne.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,716 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ou Donner corps à, engendrer, donner naissance à.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for générer, with forms such as "generer", "ggénérer", and "gnéérer". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "genre", "gerer", "Genève", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is générer, spelled G-É-N-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1ou Donner corps à, engendrer, donner naissance à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how générer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La RATP veut à tout prix éviter les évacuations (lire encadré), qui génèrent des surincidents.
À côté des verbes irréguliers, s'est constituée depuis les années 1980 une nouvelle famille, celle des verbes laids. Sont apparus valider, checker, initier, générer, impacter. Ils font autorité plus qu'ils ne signifient. Ils attestent de l'appartenance du locuteur à la sphère manageuriale. C'est un sabir qui se parle dans l'industrie, dans les services, d…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- generer
- ggénérer
- gnéérer
- génnérer
- génréer
- généerr
- générerr
- générre
- générrer
- géénrer
- égnérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of générer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).