Genie
German, noun
Genie is spelled G-E-N-I-E (5 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written German, the 8,046th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Genie is a German neuter noun meaning “genius” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, genieß is a different word: “singular imperative of genießen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person mit außergewöhnlichen geistig schöpferischen Fähigkeiten”.
What does Genie mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutergenius
noun
- 1
neutermilitary engineers (unit)
suffix
- 1
feminine-geny
verb
- 1
singular imperative of genießen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person mit außergewöhnlichen geistig schöpferischen Fähigkeiten 2. außergewöhnliche geistig schöpferische Fähigkeit
noun: 1. die Waffengattung der Ingenieure, das militärische Ingenieurwesen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Genie
- Genies genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Genie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Genie in German?
Genie appears 8.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).