germain
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,945
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
germain is anFrenchadj. It means: De mêmes père et mère, par opposition à consanguin (de même père et de mères différentes) et à utérin (de même mère et de pères différents). Pronounced \ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\. It ranks #4,945 in French word frequency. Often confused with grain and German.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | germain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for germain is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,945 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for germain, with forms such as "egrmain", "gemrain", and "geramin". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "grain", "German", "Gervais", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is germain, spelled G-E-R-M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De mêmes père et mère, par opposition à consanguin (de même père et de mères différentes) et à utérin (de même mère et de pères différents).
- 2Issu de deux frères, de deux sœurs, ou du frère et de la sœur.
- 3Voisin, analogue, semblable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egrmain,gemrain,geramin,germainn,germani,germian,germmain,gerrmain,ggermain,gremain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for germain
Misspelling Variants of "germain"
Frequency rank: #4,945 in French
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