génitrice
\ʒe.ni.tʁis\
The verdict
“génitrice” is uncommon French (frequency #74,051 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,051
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui engendre, mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genitrice · génitrice · French
génitrice · rank #74,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,051
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH génisses
Nearest frequency peer: génisses (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « génitrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gémis
gémis
25,953 corpus weight
- génisses
génisses
25,951 corpus weight
- génitrice
génitrice
25,950 corpus weight
- géraient
géraient
25,949 corpus weight
- Hannes
Hannes
25,948 corpus weight
- Harpies
Harpies
25,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « génitrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | génitrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ni.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « génitrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
génitrice is uncommon French at frequency #74,051 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒe.ni.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui engendre, mère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for génitrice, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is génitrice, spelled G-É-N-I-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui engendre, mère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how génitrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La génitrice se vit proposer au choix n’importe lequel de ces trois noms : Mokki, Sosie, ou bien celui du saint martyr Khozdazat.
Elle était en effet l’obligée de nos fautes, car sans le péché de l’homme, Jésus ne serait point né sous l’aspect peccamineux de notre ressemblance et Elle n’aurait pu dès lors être la génitrice immaculée d’un Dieu.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).