gentillesses
\ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛs\
The verdict
“gentillesses” is uncommon French (frequency #88,665 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,665
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gentillesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentillesses · gentillesses · French
gentillesses · rank #88,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,665
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaveau
Nearest frequency peer: gaveau (-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 « gentillesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gamaches
Gamaches
11,341 corpus weight
- gantelet
gantelet
11,339 corpus weight
- gaveau
gaveau
11,337 corpus weight
- gentillesses
gentillesses
11,336 corpus weight
- gestuelles
gestuelles
11,335 corpus weight
- Gilot
Gilot
11,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentillesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentillesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛs\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #88,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentillesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentillesses is uncommon French at frequency #88,665 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gentillesse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gentillesses in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gentillesses, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-L-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gentillesse.
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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