germaine
\ʒɛʁ.mɛn\
The verdict
“germaine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,954
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme autoritaire qui “gère” et “mène” son entourage et se complait à ce faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-germaine · germaine · French
germaine · rank #21,954 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,954
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gear
Nearest frequency peer: gear (-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 « germaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gambetta
Gambetta
78,050 corpus weight
- garni
garni
78,049 corpus weight
- gear
gear
78,048 corpus weight
- germaine
germaine
78,047 corpus weight
- globes
globes
78,046 corpus weight
- gouvernante
gouvernante
78,045 corpus weight
What this shows « germaine » 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 | germaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « germaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around germaine (IPA \ʒɛʁ.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,954 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme autoritaire qui “gère” et “mène” son entourage et se complait à ce faire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for germaine, with forms such as "egrmaine", "gemraine", and "geramine". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "graine", "German", "Germany", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is germaine, spelled G-E-R-M-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme autoritaire qui “gère” et “mène” son entourage et se complait à ce faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how germaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daniel Ortega, 75 ans, dépend politiquement et psychiquement de sa femme, Rosario Murillo, une « germaine ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egrmaine
- gemraine
- geramine
- germaien
- germainne
- germiane
- germmaine
- gerrmaine
- ggermaine
- gremaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of germaine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "germaine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).