germes

\ʒɛʁm\

/\ʒɛʁm\/ noun

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The verdict

“germes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,876
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de germe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-germes · germes · French

germes · rank #22,876 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,876
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gelées

Nearest frequency peer: gelées (-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 « germes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « germes » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

germes vs grès
50% similar
germes vs Gers
50% similar
germes vs grues
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for germes
PropertyValue
Headwordgermes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒɛʁm\
Letters6
Frequency rank#22,876
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « germes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).germesse 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 « gelées » (#22,875), « going » (#22,878), « galaxies » (#22,872). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « germes » est au #22,876. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around germes (IPA \ʒɛʁm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,876 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de germe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for germes, with forms such as "egrmes", "gemres", and "gerems". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grès", "Gers", "grues", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is germes, spelled G-E-R-M-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de germe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Le second bassin est planté de prêles (Equisetum fluviatile), d’iris jaunes (Iris pseudacorus) et d’iris bleus (Iris sibrica), dont le rôle est d’annihiler les germes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • egrmes
  • gemres
  • gerems
  • germess
  • germmes
  • germse
  • gerrmes
  • ggermes
  • gremes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of germes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

egrmes2gemres2gerems2germess1germmes1germse2gerrmes1ggermes1
Edit distance from "germes"

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 "germes"?
"germes" is spelled G-E-R-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒɛʁm\.
What does "germes" mean?
As a noun, "germes" means: Pluriel de germe.
What words are commonly confused with "germes"?
"germes" is commonly confused with "grès", "Gers", "grues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "germes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "germes" is \ʒɛʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "germes" come from?
"germes" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gelées#22,875graphe#22,882Hunger#22,890festif#22,858

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

flirter9 variantsfeuillet9 variantsinsère9 variantsendors9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list