gentiment
\ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“gentiment” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,320
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière gentille, avec gentillesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentiment · gentiment · French
gentiment · rank #9,320 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,320
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH féministes
Nearest frequency peer: féministes (-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 « gentiment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fondations
fondations
90,684 corpus weight
- fui
fui
90,683 corpus weight
- féministes
féministes
90,682 corpus weight
- gentiment
gentiment
90,681 corpus weight
- gouvernemen…
gouvernementale
90,680 corpus weight
- gouverner
gouverner
90,679 corpus weight
What this shows « gentiment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentiment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gentiment (IPA \ʒɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #9,320 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentiment, with forms such as "egntiment", "genitment", and "genntiment". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gentiment, spelled G-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière gentille, avec gentillesse.
- 2Sans précipitation ; tranquillement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zaheira disparut vers la cuisine, revint avec des plats alléchants, disposa gentiment l'eau et le pain sur la table.
Vous voilà gentiment arrangé (se dit à propos de quelqu’un tout éclaboussé)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntiment
- genitment
- genntiment
- gentiemnt
- gentimennt
- gentimentt
- gentimetn
- gentimment
- gentimnet
- gentmient
- genttiment
- getniment
- ggentiment
- gnetiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentiment - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).