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jenkem

noun

jenkem is spelled J-E-N-K-E-M: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jenkem means “A purported hallucinogenic inhalant made from fermented sewage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jenkem?

Letters6: J-E-N-K-E-M
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is jenkem?

Jenkem appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).

Forms of jenkem

  • jekem

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

What does jenkem mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A purported hallucinogenic inhalant made from fermented sewage.

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

Where does jenkem come from?

From Genkem (itself from General Chemical), a brand of glue similarly sniffed as a drug in South Africa.

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

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