gentillet
\ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛ\
The verdict
“gentillet” is uncommon French (frequency #80,244 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,244
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est assez gentil, assez agréable, mais sans plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentillet · gentillet · French
gentillet · rank #80,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,244
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH geel
Nearest frequency peer: geel (-2 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 « gentillet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- garantes
garantes
19,762 corpus weight
- gastronome
gastronome
19,761 corpus weight
- geel
geel
19,759 corpus weight
- gentillet
gentillet
19,757 corpus weight
- gibelins
gibelins
19,754 corpus weight
- goh
goh
19,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentillet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentillet is uncommon French at frequency #80,244 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.ti.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est assez gentil, assez agréable, mais sans plus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gentillet, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gentillet, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est assez gentil, assez agréable, mais sans plus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentillet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une chanson gentillette.
Certes, on ne doute pas que ces dames n’aiment leur troupeau : la directrice, notamment, se désole de son union stérile et elle adopte, du cœur, tous les bambins gentillets.
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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