gentes
\ʒɑ̃t\
The verdict
“gentes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,547 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,547
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de gent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentes · gentes · French
gentes · rank #71,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,547
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Ghardaïa
Nearest frequency peer: Ghardaïa (+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 « gentes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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28,460 corpus weight
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garantirait
28,457 corpus weight
- gentes
gentes
28,454 corpus weight
- Ghardaïa
Ghardaïa
28,453 corpus weight
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glutamate
28,451 corpus weight
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goret
28,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentes is uncommon French at frequency #71,547 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de gent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gentes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gentes, spelled G-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de gent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gentes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’aucuns, depuis que j’ai entrepris de déduire en français de notre âge maintes belles et plaisantes chroniques d’où tiraient liesse et profit les hautes dames, gentes damoyselles, lecteurs bourgeoisants d’esprit rassis et autres, du temps jadis, j’entends ceux, plus fantaisistes ou plus fols qui se savaient conjouir aux chimériques aventures dont l’étoff…
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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