gentry
\dʒɛn.tʁi\
The verdict
“gentry” is uncommon French (frequency #72,359 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,359
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom par lequel on désigne en Angleterre la petite noblesse non titrée, par opposition à nobility, la haute noblesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentry · gentry · French
gentry · rank #72,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,359
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gennes
Nearest frequency peer: Gennes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gentry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gaspillée
gaspillée
27,647 corpus weight
- ged
ged
27,646 corpus weight
- Geist
Geist
27,645 corpus weight
- Gennes
Gennes
27,643 corpus weight
- gentry
gentry
27,642 corpus weight
- geri
geri
27,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛn.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentry is uncommon French at frequency #72,359 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɛn.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom par lequel on désigne en Angleterre la petite noblesse non titrée, par opposition à nobility, la haute noblesse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gentry in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gentry, spelled G-E-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom par lequel on désigne en Angleterre la petite noblesse non titrée, par opposition à nobility, la haute noblesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, en effet, à partir d’Arklow, la route côtière dessert nombre de stations de bains de mer, déjà fréquentées par les familles de la gentry dublinoise.
J’affronterai, sans voiles, l’hydre aux mille faces-à-main de la gentry britannique et malheur à vous si des réflexions désobligeantes me font regretter d’avoir offert mes appas aux sarcasmes des philanthropes ! »
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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