gentillement
\ʒɑ̃.tij.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“gentillement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,905
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de gentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentillement · gentillement · French
gentillement · rank #42,905 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,905
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gazier
Nearest frequency peer: gazier (-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 « gentillement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gauss
gauss
57,099 corpus weight
- Gauvain
Gauvain
57,098 corpus weight
- gazier
gazier
57,097 corpus weight
- gentillement
gentillement
57,096 corpus weight
- gerbes
gerbes
57,095 corpus weight
- Giono
Giono
57,094 corpus weight
What this shows « gentillement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentillement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.tij.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentillement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around gentillement (IPA \ʒɑ̃.tij.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #42,905 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de gentiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentillement, with forms such as "egntillement", "genitllement", and "genntillement". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gentillement, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de gentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentillement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur Twitter, il n’a pas fallu très longtemps pour qu’une vague d’indignation se déclenche illico, certains voyant dans cette campagne rien d’autre que l’apologie du diable. D’autres préfèrent quant à eux s’en amuser gentillement.
Hâtez-vous, Heathcliff, lui dis-je, on est si bien dans la cuisine, et Joseph est remonté ; hâtez-vous, et laissez-moi vous habiller gentillement avant que miss Cathy ne sorte de sa chambre, et alors vous pourrez vous asseoir ensemble, avec tout le foyer pour vous deux, et avoir une longue causette jusqu’au moment de vous coucher.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntillement
- genitllement
- genntillement
- gentilelment
- gentilement
- gentilleemnt
- gentillemennt
- gentillementt
- gentillemetn
- gentillemment
- gentillemnet
- gentillmeent
- gentlilement
- genttillement
- getnillement
- ggentillement
- gnetillement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentillement - 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 "gentillement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).