gentleman
\ʒɑ̃.tlə.man\
The verdict
“gentleman” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,432
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gentilhomme anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentleman · gentleman · French
gentleman · rank #17,432 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,432
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Geoffrey
Nearest frequency peer: Geoffrey (+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 « gentleman »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Freddy
Freddy
82,572 corpus weight
- frise
frise
82,571 corpus weight
- gentleman
gentleman
82,569 corpus weight
- Geoffrey
Geoffrey
82,568 corpus weight
- Giroud
Giroud
82,567 corpus weight
- glaciers
glaciers
82,566 corpus weight
What this shows « gentleman » 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 | gentleman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.tlə.man\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentleman »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gentleman (IPA \ʒɑ̃.tlə.man\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,432 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gentilhomme anglais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentleman, with forms such as "egntleman", "genlteman", and "genntleman". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gentlemen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gentleman, spelled G-E-N-T-L-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Gentilhomme anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentleman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais Arthur resta froid et imperturbable, en gentleman qui a pris la gravité pour base de son caractère.
Il y avait à peu près une heure que nous étions seuls, lorsqu’on frappa à la porte ; mon père alla ouvrir et il rentra accompagné d’un monsieur qui ne ressemblait pas aux amis qu’il recevait ordinairement : celui-là était bien réellement ce qu’en Angleterre on appelle un gentleman, c’est-à-dire un vrai monsieur, élégamment habillé et de physionomie hautai…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntleman
- genlteman
- genntleman
- gentelman
- gentleamn
- gentlemann
- gentlemman
- gentlemna
- gentlleman
- gentlmean
- genttleman
- getnleman
- ggentleman
- gnetleman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentleman - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).