fenugrec
French, noun/fə.ny.ɡʁɛk/
fenugrec is spelled F-E-N-U-G-R-E-C (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fenugrec is a French masculine noun meaning “fenugreek (plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de Trigonella foenum-graecum, plante herbacée, annuelle, de la famille des Fabacées, originaire…”.
What does fenugrec mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefenugreek (plant)
- 2
masculinefenugreek (seed)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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 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.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fenugrec
- fenugrecs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fenugrec?
- /fə.ny.ɡʁɛk/
- \fə.ny.ɡʁɛk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fenugrec
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fenugrec in French?
fenugrec appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).