genoa
\ˈdʒe.noa\
The verdict
“genoa” is uncommon French (frequency #50,853 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,853
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génois, voile d’avant sur un voilier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genoa · genoa · French
genoa · rank #50,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,853
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaélique
Nearest frequency peer: gaélique (-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 « genoa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- funambule
funambule
49,152 corpus weight
- galeriste
galeriste
49,151 corpus weight
- gaélique
gaélique
49,149 corpus weight
- genoa
genoa
49,148 corpus weight
- Gesellschaft
Gesellschaft
49,147 corpus weight
- geôliers
geôliers
49,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « genoa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genoa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdʒe.noa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « genoa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
genoa is uncommon French at frequency #50,853 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdʒe.noa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Génois, voile d’avant sur un voilier.".
genoa has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is genoa, spelled G-E-N-O-A.
Definition
- 1Génois, voile d’avant sur un voilier.
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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