masculin générique
\mas.ky.lɛ̃ ʒe.ne.ʁik\
The verdict
“masculin générique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Utilisation du genre masculin pour désigner les membres d’un groupe même s’il n’y a pas que des hommes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masculin générique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mas.ky.lɛ̃ ʒe.ne.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masculin générique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for masculin générique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mas.ky.lɛ̃ ʒe.ne.ʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utilisation du genre masculin pour désigner les membres d’un groupe même s’il n’y a pas que des hommes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for masculin générique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 masculin générique, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N- -G-É-N-É-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utilisation du genre masculin pour désigner les membres d’un groupe même s’il n’y a pas que des hommes.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N- -G-É-N-É-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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