gens du Livre
The verdict
“gens du Livre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ceux à qui, selon le Coran, les messages divins ont été révélés à travers un livre révélé à un prophète. (essentiellement, les Juifs et les Chrétiens)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gens du Livre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃ dy livʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gens du Livre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gens du Livre is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃ dy livʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ceux à qui, selon le Coran, les messages divins ont été révélés à travers un livre révélé à un prophète. (essentiellement, les Juifs et les Chrétiens)".
No misspelling variants are generated for gens du Livre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 gens du Livre, spelled G-E-N-S- -D-U- -L-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ceux à qui, selon le Coran, les messages divins ont été révélés à travers un livre révélé à un prophète. (essentiellement, les Juifs et les Chrétiens)
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gens du Livre”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-E-N-S- -D-U- -L-I-V-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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