gere
\ɡe.re\
The verdict
“gere” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,804) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,804
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avertisseur, corne, klaxon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gere · gere · French
gere · rank #41,804 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,804
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaïa
Nearest frequency peer: Gaïa (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gere »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Garland
Garland
58,200 corpus weight
- Garth
Garth
58,199 corpus weight
- Gaïa
Gaïa
58,198 corpus weight
- gere
gere
58,197 corpus weight
- gigot
gigot
58,196 corpus weight
- Givenchy
Givenchy
58,195 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gere » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | gere |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.re\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gere »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gere is neighbouring look-alikes ("GR", "gré", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡe.re\. Frequency #41,804 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Avertisseur, corne, klaxon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gere, with forms such as "egre", "geer", and "ggere". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GR", "gré", "get", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gere, spelled G-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1Avertisseur, corne, klaxon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egre
- geer
- ggere
- gree
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gere - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gere", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).