Gers
\ʒɛʁs\
The verdict
“Gers” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,033
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du sud-ouest de la France, affluent de la Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gers · Gers · French
Gers · rank #19,033 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,033
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gentilhomme
Nearest frequency peer: gentilhomme (-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 « Gers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fécondité
fécondité
80,971 corpus weight
- gadget
gadget
80,970 corpus weight
- gentilhomme
gentilhomme
80,969 corpus weight
- Gers
Gers
80,968 corpus weight
- GG
GG
80,967 corpus weight
- gourou
gourou
80,966 corpus weight
What this shows « Gers » 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 | Gers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Gers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Gers (IPA \ʒɛʁs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,033 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gers, with forms such as "egrs", "gerrs", and "gerss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GR", "Gs", "gré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Gers, spelled G-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Rivière du sud-ouest de la France, affluent de la Garonne.
- 2Département traversé par cette rivière en région Occitanie, et qui porte le numéro 32.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A mes yeux se présente enfin, après une longue route péniblement parcourue la cité d’Auch assise sur un haut sommet. Salut, ville aux flancs abrupts, et toi, Gers, rivière trouble dont je vais fouler le pont, toi dont mes vers s’amusèrent jadis ! Que j’ai pitié de te voir errer dans un lit presque sec ! Dès que Sirius sévit contre toi, épuise tes ondes et…
Le Gers est un jardin pareil à la Toscane Où la beauté captive reflète en son miroir Les collines attachantes, les cyprès, les platanes. D’Armagnac en Lomagne, tout est prétexte à voir : Enroulées aux coteaux, les vignes qui flamboient, Les pampres et les blés d’or, l’égayement des oies. Terre si contrastée où plus d’un trésor brille. Terre de mes aïeux,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egrs
- gerrs
- gerss
- gesr
- ggers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gers - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).