gériatrie

\ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\

/\ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“gériatrie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,119
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Branche de la médecine qui s’intéresse aux personnes âgées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-geriatrie · gériatrie · French

gériatrie · rank #49,119 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,119
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gulliver

Nearest frequency peer: gulliver (-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 « gériatrie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gériatrie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gériatrie
PropertyValue
Headwordgériatrie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#49,119
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gériatrie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gériatriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gulliver » (#49,118), « Guilbert » (#49,117), « hae » (#49,121). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gériatrie » est au #49,119. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around gériatrie (IPA \ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,119 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Branche de la médecine qui s’intéresse aux personnes âgées.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gériatrie, with forms such as "geriatrie", "ggériatrie", and "gréiatrie". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gériatrie, spelled G-É-R-I-A-T-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Branche de la médecine qui s’intéresse aux personnes âgées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gériatrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les opportunités pour les gériatres sont terribles ici. Cette spécialité est terriblement dévaluée. C’est très triste parce que je pensais vraiment, quand j'ai choisi la gériatrie, que c’était la spécialité du futur.
  2. — La culture est gériatrie expérimentale quand elle recycle naïvement une modernité dadaïste et publicitairement indéclassable, soi-disant subversive comme un sexagénaire rock’n’roll habillé en adolescent.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • geriatrie
  • ggériatrie
  • gréiatrie
  • géiratrie
  • géraitrie
  • gériartie
  • gériatire
  • gériatrei
  • gériatrrie
  • gériattrie
  • géritarie
  • gérriatrie
  • égriatrie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gériatrie - 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.

geriatrie1ggériatrie1gréiatrie2géiratrie2géraitrie2gériartie2gériatire2gériatrei2
Edit distance from "gériatrie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gériatrie"?
"gériatrie" is spelled G-É-R-I-A-T-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\.
What does "gériatrie" mean?
As a noun, "gériatrie" means: Branche de la médecine qui s’intéresse aux personnes âgées.
What are common misspellings of "gériatrie"?
Common misspellings include "geriatrie", "ggériatrie", "gréiatrie", "géiratrie", "géraitrie". The correct spelling is "gériatrie".
How do you pronounce "gériatrie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gériatrie" is \ʒe.ʁja.tʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gériatrie" come from?
"gériatrie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gériatrie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list