genevois
\ʒən.vwa\
The verdict
“genevois” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,845
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la ville de Genève ou aux Genevois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genevois · genevois · French
genevois · rank #19,845 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,845
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gazeuse
Nearest frequency peer: gazeuse (-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 « genevois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gammes
gammes
80,160 corpus weight
- gardons
gardons
80,159 corpus weight
- gazeuse
gazeuse
80,157 corpus weight
- genevois
genevois
80,156 corpus weight
- glandes
glandes
80,154 corpus weight
- gravier
gravier
80,153 corpus weight
What this shows « genevois » 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 | genevois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒən.vwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « genevois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around genevois (IPA \ʒən.vwa\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,845 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for genevois, with forms such as "egnevois", "geenvois", and "geneovis". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Génois", "genevoise", "genesis", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is genevois, spelled G-E-N-E-V-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la ville de Genève ou aux Genevois.
- 2Relatif au canton de Genève.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how genevois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Une téméraire consœur genevoise du site d'info Watson a infiltré la plateforme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnevois
- geenvois
- geneovis
- genevios
- genevoiss
- genevosi
- genevvois
- gennevois
- genveois
- ggenevois
- gneevois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of genevois - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "genevois"?
What does "genevois" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "genevois"?
How do you pronounce "genevois"?
What language does "genevois" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "genevois", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).