gentiment

/\ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,320

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

gentiment is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière gentille, avec gentillesse. Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. It ranks #9,320 in French word frequency.

Key facts for gentiment
PropertyValue
Headwordgentiment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#9,320
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gentiment in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gentiment is 9 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,320 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for gentiment, with forms such as "egntiment", "genitment", and "genntiment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gentiment, spelled G-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière gentille, avec gentillesse.
  2. 2
    Sans précipitation ; tranquillement.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egntiment,genitment,genntiment,gentiemnt,gentimennt,gentimentt,gentimetn,gentimment,gentimnet,gentmient,genttiment,getniment,ggentiment,gnetiment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gentiment

Misspelling Variants of "gentiment"

egntiment9genitment9genntiment10gentiemnt9gentimennt10gentimentt10gentimetn9gentimment10
Misspelling Variants of "gentiment"

Frequency rank: #9,320 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gentiment"?
"gentiment" is spelled G-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\.
What does "gentiment" mean?
As an adv, "gentiment" means: D’une manière gentille, avec gentillesse.
What are common misspellings of "gentiment"?
Common misspellings include "egntiment", "genitment", "genntiment", "gentiemnt", "gentimennt". The correct spelling is "gentiment".
How do you pronounce "gentiment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gentiment" is \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gentiment" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.