géminée
French, noun/ʒe.mi.ne/
géminée is spelled G-É-M-I-N-É-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Géminée is a French feminine noun meaning “geminate (double consonant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Consonne longue répartie entre la fin d’une syllabe et le début de la syllabe suivante. En français, on…”.
What does géminée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegeminate (double consonant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Consonne longue répartie entre la fin d’une syllabe et le début de la syllabe suivante. En français, on trouve rarement la géminée \ʁʁ\ comme dans courrai \kuʁ.ʁe\. Très commune en italien, en japonais, etc.
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 géminée
- géminées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce géminée?
- /ʒe.mi.ne/
- \ʒe.mi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to géminée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is géminée in French?
géminée appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).