genuine
/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/adjective
genuine is spelled G-E-N-U-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is geniune: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Genuine is an adjective meaning “Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native”.
How many letters and syllables are in genuine?
| Letters | 7: G-E-N-U-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, geniune, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell genuine?
Genuine is spelled G-E-N-U-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for genuine in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is genuine?
Genuine appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th 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).
How do you pronounce genuine?
- UK /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.ɪn/
- UK /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.aɪn/
- US /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/
Genuine has 3 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-genuine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with genuine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as genuine (/ɛnjuɪn/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ingenue.
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 genuine
- more genuine comparative
- most genuine superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does genuine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.
- 2
Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated.
a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Genuine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense real, authentic:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | authentique |
| German | echt, original, genuin |
| Portuguese | genuíno, autêntico, legítimo |
| Spanish | genuino, auténtico, legítimo, verdadero |
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 genuine come from?
From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).