Gentilly
\ʒɑ̃.ti.ji\
The verdict
“Gentilly” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,314
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Val-de-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentilly · Gentilly · French
Gentilly · rank #38,314 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,314
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Genk
Nearest frequency peer: Genk (-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 « Gentilly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gardaient
gardaient
61,690 corpus weight
- Garneau
Garneau
61,689 corpus weight
- Genk
Genk
61,688 corpus weight
- Gentilly
Gentilly
61,687 corpus weight
- Georgetown
Georgetown
61,686 corpus weight
- ghibli
ghibli
61,685 corpus weight
What this shows « Gentilly » 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 | Gentilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.ti.ji\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gentilly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gentilly (IPA \ʒɑ̃.ti.ji\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,314 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gentilly, with forms such as "egntilly", "genitlly", and "genntilly". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gentils", "gentil", "gentille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Gentilly, spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Val-de-Marne.
- 2Secteur de la ville de Bécancour, au Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gentilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 10 janvier, au petit jour, le citoyen Guillaume Recorder, maire de Gentilly, monte à la maison de détention, suivant les instructions qu'il a reçues : on lui présente les quarante proscrits ; […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntilly
- genitlly
- genntilly
- gentillyy
- gentily
- gentilyl
- gentlily
- genttilly
- getnilly
- ggentilly
- gnetilly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gentilly - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).