genêt
\ʒə.nɛ\
The verdict
“genêt” is uncommon French (frequency #63,021 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,021
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Différents genres de plantes de la famille des Fabacées, qui renferment un grand nombre d’arbrisseaux et d’arbustes, la plupart à fleurs jaunes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genet · genêt · French
genêt · rank #63,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,021
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gentrification
Nearest frequency peer: gentrification (-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 « genêt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- geller
geller
36,983 corpus weight
- gentiane
gentiane
36,982 corpus weight
- gentrificat…
gentrification
36,981 corpus weight
- genêt
genêt
36,980 corpus weight
- Gershwin
Gershwin
36,979 corpus weight
- Gesù
Gesù
36,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « genêt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genêt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « genêt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
genêt is uncommon French at frequency #63,021 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Différents genres de plantes de la famille des Fabacées, qui renferment un grand nombre d’arbrisseaux et d’arbustes, la plupart à fleurs jaunes.".
genêt has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 genêt, spelled G-E-N-Ê-T.
Definition
- 1Différents genres de plantes de la famille des Fabacées, qui renferment un grand nombre d’arbrisseaux et d’arbustes, la plupart à fleurs jaunes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how genêt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On était au premier mois de l'été. C'est la belle saison de la Bretagne, car, au printemps, les genêts et les ajoncs se couvrent déjà de fleurs d'or, mais il pleut trop souvent.
Les genêts jaunes, bottelés, faisaient queue de paon derrière nous dans la capote de la vieille voiture.
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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