Genève

\ʒə.nɛv\

/\ʒə.nɛv\/ name

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The verdict

“Genève” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,779
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-geneve · Genève · French

Genève · rank #2,779 · 9 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,779
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gardien

Nearest frequency peer: gardien (-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 « Genève »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Genève » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Genève vs genre
50% similar
Genève vs génie
33% similar
Genève vs grève
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Genève
PropertyValue
HeadwordGenève
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʒə.nɛv\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,779
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Genève »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Genèvese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gardien » (#2,778), « geste » (#2,780), « frontières » (#2,777). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Genève » est au #2,779. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Genève (IPA \ʒə.nɛv\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,779 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Genève, with forms such as "egnève", "geneve", and "gennève". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "genre", "génie", "grève", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Genève, spelled G-E-N-È-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.
  2. 2
    Canton de Suisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Genève appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y eut des plats à ravir la pensée !… des nouilles d’une délicatesse inédite, une féra de Genève à la vraie sauce genevoise, et une crème pour plum-pudding à étonner le fameux docteur qui l’a, dit-on, inventée à Londres.
  2. Ce n’est pas seulement pour admirer le célèbre panorama du Mont-Blanc qu’il faut venir à Genève.

Synonyms

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This word in other languages

Geneva(English)Ginebra(Español)Genf(Deutsch)Genebra(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • egnève
  • geneve
  • gennève
  • genvèe
  • genèev
  • genèvve
  • geènve
  • ggenève
  • gneève

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Genève - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

egnève2geneve1gennève1genvèe2genèev2genèvve1geènve2ggenève1
Edit distance from "Genève"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Genève"?
"Genève" is spelled G-E-N-È-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒə.nɛv\.
What does "Genève" mean?
As a proper noun, "Genève" means: Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.
What words are commonly confused with "Genève"?
"Genève" is commonly confused with "genre", "génie", "grève". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Genève"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Genève" is \ʒə.nɛv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Genève" come from?
"Genève" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Genève", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

majeur#2,785drogue#2,772disais#2,771debout#2,770

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

pardon9 variantscacher9 variantsrelève9 variantsBerlin9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list