généreux
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,459
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
généreux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est de nature élevée, noble. Pronounced \ʒe.ne.ʁø\. It ranks #5,459 in French word frequency. Often confused with générer and générée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | généreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒe.ne.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for généreux is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.ne.ʁø\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,459 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for généreux, with forms such as "genereux", "ggénéreux", and "gnééreux". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "générer", "générée", "généraux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is généreux, spelled G-É-N-É-R-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est de nature élevée, noble.
- 2Qui est l’indice d’une âme généreuse ; qui part d’une âme généreuse.
- 3Qui est porté à donner plus qu’il n’est tenu de donner, ou à recevoir moins que ce qu’il a le droit de réclamer.
- 4Qui produit beaucoup.
- 5Qui a du corps et qui réconforte.
- 6Qui est de bonne race, de race noble, qui a le sens de l’honneur. On ne retrouve plus cette acception que dans les expressions poétiques :
- 7Présent en grandes quantités ; volumineux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: genereux,ggénéreux,gnééreux,génnéreux,génréeux,généerux,généreuxx,générexu,générreux,généruex,géénreux,égnéreux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for généreux
Misspelling Variants of "généreux"
Frequency rank: #5,459 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: