gentlemen
\dʒɛn.tlə.mɛn\
The verdict
“gentlemen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,419
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gentleman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentlemen · gentlemen · French
gentlemen · rank #32,419 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,419
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gobelets
Nearest frequency peer: gobelets (+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 « gentlemen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gail
gail
67,585 corpus weight
- gentlemen
gentlemen
67,582 corpus weight
- gobelets
gobelets
67,581 corpus weight
- Granby
Granby
67,580 corpus weight
- graphite
graphite
67,579 corpus weight
- grimaces
grimaces
67,578 corpus weight
What this shows « gentlemen » 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 | gentlemen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛn.tlə.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gentlemen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gentlemen (IPA \dʒɛn.tlə.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,419 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gentleman.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentlemen, with forms such as "egntlemen", "genltemen", and "genntlemen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gentleman", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gentlemen, spelled G-E-N-T-L-E-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gentleman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentlemen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n'est pas à cette allure que vont jamais les gentlemen, soucieux de leur respectabilité.
Sur une banquette, un leste petit voyou, que des gentlemen faisaient boire, se leva.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntlemen
- genltemen
- genntlemen
- gentelmen
- gentleemn
- gentlemenn
- gentlemmen
- gentlemne
- gentllemen
- gentlmeen
- genttlemen
- getnlemen
- ggentlemen
- gnetlemen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentlemen - 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).