frangipani
/ˌfrændʒɪˈpɑːni/noun
frangipani is a noun meaning “Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-N-G-I-P-A-N-I, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frangipani is frangipanis.
What does frangipani mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
- 2
A flower of these plants.
- 3
A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
- 4
Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frangipani?
- /ˌfrændʒɪˈpɑːni/
- /ˌfrændʒɪˈpæni/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frangipani
- frangipanis plural
- frangipane
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frangipani?
Frangipani appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Frangipani in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | frangipanier |
| German | Frangipani |
| Spanish | cacalosúchil |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does frangipani come from?
From French frangipane, from Italian frangipane. Possibly named after Muzio Frangipane, a 16th-century marquess of the Italian noble Frangipani family, who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name Frangipane derives from frangere (“to break”) + pane (“bread”), a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).