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zingiber

noun

zingiber is spelled Z-I-N-G-I-B-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, zingiber means “Any member of the genus Zingiber of gingers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of zingiber is zingibers.

How many letters and syllables are in zingiber?

Letters8: Z-I-N-G-I-B-E-R
In writingabout once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th 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 zingiber?

Zingiber appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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 zingiber

  • zingibers plural

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

What does zingiber mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any member of the genus Zingiber of gingers.

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

Where does zingiber come from?

From taxonomic name Zingiber. Doublet of ginger.

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

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