genie
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/noun
genie is spelled G-E-N-I-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Genie, the name). As a noun, genie means “A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of genie is genii or genies.
How many letters and syllables are in genie?
| Letters | 5: G-E-N-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,896th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is genie?
Genie appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Genie, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce genie?
- /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/
Genie has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-genie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with genie
Sounds like: Gini (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with genie?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as genie.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: engie.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of genie
- genii plural
- genies plural
- jinn
- djinn
- djinni
- djinny
- jinni
- jinnie
- jinnee
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does genie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
- 2
A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
genie in a bottle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Genie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an unseen being in Muslim theology:
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 genie come from?
From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).