gentille
\ʒɑ̃.tij\
The verdict
“gentille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,561
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage féminin d’une œuvre de fiction qui incarne le bien, par opposition à la méchante qui fait le mal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentille · gentille · French
gentille · rank #5,561 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Florence
Nearest frequency peer: Florence (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faillite
faillite
94,443 corpus weight
- favorables
favorables
94,442 corpus weight
- Florence
Florence
94,441 corpus weight
- gentille
gentille
94,440 corpus weight
- globe
globe
94,439 corpus weight
- grecs
grecs
94,438 corpus weight
What this shows « gentille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | gentille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.tij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gentille (IPA \ʒɑ̃.tij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personnage féminin d’une œuvre de fiction qui incarne le bien, par opposition à la méchante qui fait le mal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentille, with forms such as "egntille", "genitlle", and "genntille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gentils", "Gentilly", "gentilles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 gentille, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage féminin d’une œuvre de fiction qui incarne le bien, par opposition à la méchante qui fait le mal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntille
- genitlle
- genntille
- gentile
- gentilel
- gentlile
- genttille
- getnille
- ggentille
- gnetille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentille - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gentille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).