genevois

\ʒən.vwa\

/\ʒən.vwa\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « genevois » 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).

genevois vs Génois
50% similar
genevois vs genevoise
89% similar
genevois vs genesis
75% similar

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

Key facts for genevois
PropertyValue
Headwordgenevois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʒən.vwa\
Letters8
Frequency rank#19,845
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « genevois »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gazeuse » (#19,844), « glandes » (#19,847), « gardons » (#19,842). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « genevois » est au #19,845. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Relatif à la ville de Genève ou aux Genevois.
  2. 2
    Relatif au canton de Genève.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how genevois 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. 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.

egnevois2geenvois2geneovis2genevios2genevoiss1genevosi2genevvois1gennevois1
Edit distance from "genevois"

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"?
"genevois" is spelled G-E-N-E-V-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒən.vwa\.
What does "genevois" mean?
As an adjective, "genevois" means: Relatif à la ville de Genève ou aux Genevois.
What words are commonly confused with "genevois"?
"genevois" is commonly confused with "Génois", "genevoise", "genesis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "genevois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "genevois" is \ʒən.vwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "genevois" come from?
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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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list