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
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif à la ville de Genève ou aux Genevois.
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) |
Where “genevois” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around genevois (IPA \ʒən.vwa\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,845 among 194,371 “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.
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.
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Using “genevois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-E-N-E-V-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒən.vwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Génois” - see the side-by-side comparison. genevois vs Génois
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.