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konjac

/ˈkəʊn.jæk/noun

konjac is a noun meaning “A foul-smelling plant grown in Asia, Amorphophallus konjac” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-N-J-A-C, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of konjac is konjacs.

What does konjac mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A foul-smelling plant grown in Asia, Amorphophallus konjac.

  2. 2

    Any of various food products made from the plant, including a flour and a gelatin, used to make noodles and candies, and as a food supplement for weight reduction.

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

How do you pronounce konjac?

  • /ˈkəʊn.jæk/
  • /ˈkɒn-/
  • /-d͡ʒæk/

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

Forms of konjac

  • konjacs plural
  • konjak
  • konjaku
  • konnyaku

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

How common is konjac?

Konjac appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).

Konjac in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanTeufelszunge, Konjakpflanze (Amorphophallus konjac), Konjakwurzel (food product)
Portuguesekonjac (Amorphophallus konjac)
Spanishkonjac (kóniak) (Amorphophallus konjac)

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 konjac come from?

From the Latinized binomial name for the plant, Amorphophallus konjac or Arisaema konjac in earlier texts, from Japanese 蒟蒻, 菎蒻 (konnyaku) or Korean 곤약 (gonyak). The Japanese term probably derives from Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 蒟蒻 (MC kjuX|kjuH nyak). The plant is not native to the Japanese archipelago, and was imported from China.

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