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freesia

/ˈfɹi.ʒə/noun

freesia is a noun meaning “Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-S-I-A, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of freesia is freesias.

What does freesia mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce freesia?

  • /ˈfɹi.ʒə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of freesia

  • freesias plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is freesia?

Freesia 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).

Freesia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense plant:

LanguageWords
Frenchfreesia
Portuguesefrésia

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 freesia come from?

From the genus name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).