germain
\ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“germain” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,945
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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).
Corpus desk
Index FR-germain · germain · French
germain · rank #4,945 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garantir
Nearest frequency peer: garantir (-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 « germain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- francophones
francophones
95,059 corpus weight
- French
French
95,058 corpus weight
- garantir
garantir
95,057 corpus weight
- germain
germain
95,056 corpus weight
- identique
identique
95,055 corpus weight
- indiens
indiens
95,054 corpus weight
What this shows « germain » 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 | germain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « germain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around germain (IPA \ʒɛʁ.mɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,945 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for germain, with forms such as "egrmain", "gemrain", and "geramin". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "grain", "German", "Gervais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is germain, spelled G-E-R-M-A-I-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how germain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frère germain, sœur germaine.
Cousin germain, cousine germaine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egrmain
- gemrain
- geramin
- germainn
- germani
- germian
- germmain
- gerrmain
- ggermain
- gremain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of germain - 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 "germain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).