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goji

/ˈɡoʊ.d͡ʒi/noun

goji is spelled G-O-J-I: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goji means “A fruit in the genus Lycium, especially in commercial products where it is promoted as a superfruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goji is gojis.

How many letters and syllables are in goji?

Letters4: G-O-J-I
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 81,375th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 goji?

Goji appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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 goji?

  • US /ˈɡoʊ.d͡ʒi/

Goji has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

What rhymes with goji?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as goji from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdʒi/):

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 goji

  • gojis plural

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

What does goji mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A fruit in the genus Lycium, especially in commercial products where it is promoted as a superfruit.

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

Where does goji come from?

^((please verify)) A marketing coinage, likely an altered pronunciation of Mandarin 枸杞 (gǒuqǐ). The earliest known usage in print was in a publication in 1996. The first usage in the LexisNexis database is a newspaper article in 2002. Wider usage began in 2003 and 2004.

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

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