fenugrec
\fə.ny.ɡʁɛk\
The verdict
“fenugrec” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel de Trigonella foenum-graecum, plante herbacée, annuelle, de la famille des Fabacées, originaire d’une zone allant de l’Irak au Pakistan, dont la graine mucilagineuse, odorante — qui conti...
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Index FR-fenugrec · fenugrec · French
fenugrec · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fenugrec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fə.ny.ɡʁɛk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fenugrec” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fenugrec is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fə.ny.ɡʁɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel de Trigonella foenum-graecum, plante herbacée, annuelle, de la famille des Fabacées, originaire d’une zone allant de l’Irak au Pakistan, dont la graine mucilagineuse, odorante — qui conti...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fenugrec in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fenugrec, spelled F-E-N-U-G-R-E-C.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Trigonella foenum-graecum, plante herbacée, annuelle, de la famille des Fabacées, originaire d’une zone allant de l’Irak au Pakistan, dont la graine mucilagineuse, odorante — qui contient, entre autres, de la diosgénine de la coumarine et de la sotolone —, est émolliente et adoucissante, elle fait partie de la pharmacopée traditionnelle de la Méditerranée, de l’Inde et de la Chine.
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