Geronimo
The verdict
“Geronimo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,550
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef apache, protagonistes des guerres apaches, le dernier à continuer à se battre contre le Mexique et les États-Unis pour les droits des Amérindiens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geronimo · Geronimo · French
Geronimo · rank #48,550 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,550
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gallant
Nearest frequency peer: gallant (-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 « Geronimo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- férocement
férocement
51,454 corpus weight
- fœtale
fœtale
51,453 corpus weight
- gallant
gallant
51,452 corpus weight
- Geronimo
Geronimo
51,451 corpus weight
- ghazi
ghazi
51,450 corpus weight
- gift
gift
51,448 corpus weight
What this shows « Geronimo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geronimo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Geronimo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Geronimo, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,550 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chef apache, protagonistes des guerres apaches, le dernier à continuer à se battre contre le Mexique et les États-Unis pour les droits des Amérindiens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Geronimo, with forms such as "egronimo", "geornimo", and "gernoimo". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Geronimo, spelled G-E-R-O-N-I-M-O.
Definition
- 1Chef apache, protagonistes des guerres apaches, le dernier à continuer à se battre contre le Mexique et les États-Unis pour les droits des Amérindiens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Geronimo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les guerres apaches débutèrent en 1851 avec l'arrivée des colons américains, et se terminèrent en 1886, l'année de la reddition de Geronimo.
Guu Ji Ya est un puissant chamane, qui mène les Chiricahuas au combat. Les Blancs l’appellent Geronimo, parce que c’est saint Jérôme qu’invoquaient les Mexicains pour les protéger de ses flèches.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egronimo
- geornimo
- gernoimo
- geroinmo
- geronimmo
- geroniom
- geronmio
- geronnimo
- gerronimo
- ggeronimo
- greonimo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Geronimo - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).