genre
\ʒɑ̃ʁ\
The verdict
“genre” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #250 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #250
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble d’êtres, ou de choses, caractérisé par un ou des traits communs.
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 | genre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃ʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “genre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for genre is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃ʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #250 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for genre, with forms such as "egnre", "gener", and "gennre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "ger", "gens", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is genre, spelled G-E-N-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’êtres, ou de choses, caractérisé par un ou des traits communs.
- 2Ensemble d’êtres, ou de choses, caractérisé par un ou des traits communs.
- 3Sorte, manière ou type qualifiant quelque chose d’abstrait ou de concret.
- 4Catégorie à laquelle appartient un objet.
- 5Utilisé de façon péjorative, pour cataloguer quelqu'un ou quelque chose, souligner son appartenance à une catégorie.
- 6Style auquel appartient une œuvre littéraire, artistique.
- 7Sous-partie ou subdivision d’un art.
- 8Peinture de paysage, de portrait, de scènes d’intérieur, d’intimité, de fantaisie, etc.
- 9Type de musique caractérisé par sa gamme :
- 10Catégorie grammaticale répartissant de façon arbitraire les mots, notamment les substantifs, en groupes opposés dans un système particulier : le masculin, le féminin, le neutre, l’inanimé, etc. selon la langue considérée.
- 11Mode d’expression d’une action par rapport au sujet.
- 12Allure, apparence d’une personne.
- 13Ce que l’on apprécie.
- 14Goût avec lequel quelque chose est réalisé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egnre,gener,gennre,genrre,gerne,ggenre,gnere
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of genre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “genre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-E-N-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɑ̃ʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gré” - see the side-by-side comparison. genre vs gré
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.