générique
\ʒe.ne.ʁik\
The verdict
“générique” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,986
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-generique · générique · French
générique · rank #5,986 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,986
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH green
Nearest frequency peer: green (-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 « générique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- golfe
golfe
94,017 corpus weight
- green
green
94,016 corpus weight
- générique
générique
94,015 corpus weight
- Hollywood
Hollywood
94,014 corpus weight
- Hongrie
Hongrie
94,013 corpus weight
- individuell…
individuelles
94,012 corpus weight
What this shows « générique » 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 | générique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒe.ne.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « générique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around générique (IPA \ʒe.ne.ʁik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,986 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for générique, with forms such as "generique", "ggénérique", and "gnéérique". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "génique", "génétique", "génomique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is générique, spelled G-É-N-É-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au genre.
- 2Produit vendu sans nom de marque.
- 3Typé au moment de la compilation. Cela permet à un même code de manipuler plusieurs classes, mais pas toutes grâce au typage en paramètres pour plus de précision.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how générique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans tous les cas, la première partie du synthème est générique (elle désigne le genre, sous-section de la famille selon la terminologie propre à la zoologie), et la seconde est spécifiante (elle désigne l’espèce, sous-section du genre selon cette même terminologie).
D’autres se placent avant, comme dans antigel, et certains se placent même au milieu comme dans israélo-arabe. Le premier type est appelé suffixe, le second préfixe et le troisième infixe ; le terme générique pour ces trois formes étant affixe (du latin affigere ‘attacher’).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- generique
- ggénérique
- gnéérique
- génnérique
- génréique
- généirque
- génériqeu
- génériqque
- génériuqe
- générqiue
- générrique
- géénrique
- égnérique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of générique - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "générique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).