genèse
French, noun
genèse is spelled G-E-N-È-S-E (6 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Genèse is a French feminine noun meaning “genesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, génèse is a different word: “alternative form of genèse”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Production, développement, croissance, début”.
What does genèse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegenesis
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of genèse
suffix
- 1
-genesis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Genèse.
noun: 1. Production, développement, croissance, début. 2. Création, production des œuvres de l’esprit humain.
noun: 1. Variante de genèse, critiquée (et non attestée par les dictionnaires de l'Académie française, Larousse et Le Robert).
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 genèse
- genèses plural
- génèses plural
- génèse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to genèse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is genèse in French?
genèse appears 5.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).