génial
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,519
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
génial is anFrenchadj. It means: Où il y a du génie. Pronounced \ʒe.njal\. It ranks #2,519 in French word frequency. Often confused with génie and gentil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | génial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒe.njal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for génial is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.njal\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,519 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for génial, with forms such as "genial", "ggénial", and "gnéial". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "génie", "gentil", "génies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is génial, spelled G-É-N-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Où il y a du génie.
- 2(Utilisé aussi comme une interjection) Excellent, remarquable, extraordinaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: genial,ggénial,gnéial,géinal,génail,géniall,génila,génnial,égnial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for génial
Misspelling Variants of "génial"
Frequency rank: #2,519 in French
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