ganja
\ɡɑ̃n.dʒa\
The verdict
“ganja” is uncommon French (frequency #85,746 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,746
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cannabis, préparation qui se fait avec les fleurs séchées du chanvre indien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ganja · ganja · French
ganja · rank #85,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,746
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH galérien
Nearest frequency peer: galérien (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ganja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gallicane
gallicane
14,257 corpus weight
- galérien
galérien
14,256 corpus weight
- ganja
ganja
14,255 corpus weight
- gardeur
gardeur
14,254 corpus weight
- Gaudreau
Gaudreau
14,253 corpus weight
- gazinière
gazinière
14,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ganja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃n.dʒa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ganja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ganja is uncommon French at frequency #85,746 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃n.dʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cannabis, préparation qui se fait avec les fleurs séchées du chanvre indien.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ganja in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ganja, spelled G-A-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1Cannabis, préparation qui se fait avec les fleurs séchées du chanvre indien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ganja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois rastas sont allongés sous un cocotier, le visage planqué sous leurs dreadlocks. Ils ont visiblement fumé d’énormes joints de ganja et sont complètement défoncés.
Le tonton lui avait fait part de rumeurs concernant le cambriolage d’un appartement du quartier, propriété d’une styliste d’origine africaine. La styliste sortait avec un musicien. Ledit musicien avait une seconde vie de dealer de ganja.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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