généreuse
\ʒe.ne.ʁøz\
The verdict
“généreuse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,063
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouche généreuse, grain de beauté factice placé sur la poitrine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genereuse · généreuse · French
généreuse · rank #11,063 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,063
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gastronomie
Nearest frequency peer: gastronomie (-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 « généreuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- féminins
féminins
88,941 corpus weight
- gagnante
gagnante
88,940 corpus weight
- gastronomie
gastronomie
88,939 corpus weight
- généreuse
généreuse
88,938 corpus weight
- habituels
habituels
88,937 corpus weight
- Harold
Harold
88,936 corpus weight
What this shows « généreuse » 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 | généreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ne.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « généreuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around généreuse (IPA \ʒe.ne.ʁøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,063 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mouche généreuse, grain de beauté factice placé sur la poitrine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for généreuse, with forms such as "genereuse", "ggénéreuse", and "gnééreuse". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "généreux", "généreuses", "générée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is généreuse, spelled G-É-N-É-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Mouche généreuse, grain de beauté factice placé sur la poitrine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how généreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le décolleté était profond et contenait à peine ce qui, d’habitude, était aplati par l’étoffe du pourpoint. J'y avais collé une généreuse, qui devait exalter la pâleur laiteuse de ma peau.
Dans son décolleté ovale frangée de dentelle, un de ses seins ivoirins portait cette mouche de taffetas qu’on appelait la généreuse, et une autre, nommée l’enjouée, se nichait au coeur de son sourire
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- genereuse
- ggénéreuse
- gnééreuse
- génnéreuse
- génréeuse
- généeruse
- généresue
- généreues
- généreusse
- générreuse
- généruese
- géénreuse
- égnéreuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of généreuse - 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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