germe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,984
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
germe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rudiment de tout être organisé, végétal ou animal. Pronounced \ʒɛʁm\. Often confused with gré and grue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | germe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for germe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,984 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for germe, with forms such as "egrme", "gemre", and "gerem". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "grue", "gore", 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 germe, spelled G-E-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rudiment de tout être organisé, végétal ou animal.
- 2Partie compacte et glaireuse qui se trouve dans l’œuf.
- 3Ovaire, partie de la fleur qui devient le fruit lorsque la fécondation s’est opérée.
- 4Partie de la semence dont se forme la plante.
- 5Partie d’une racine bulbeuse ou tubéreuse, ou d'un rhizome qui produit une nouvelle plante.
- 6Première pousse qui sort d’une graine, d’une bulbe, etc., lorsqu’elle commence à pousser.
- 7Principe, cause, origine de quelque chose.
- 8Micro-organisme ayant une action nuisible ou pathogène, comme une bactérie, un virus, un champignon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egrme,gemre,gerem,germme,gerrme,ggerme,greme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for germe
Misspelling Variants of "germe"
Frequency rank: #24,984 in French
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