gengeli

noun

The verdict

“gengeli” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire en Inde du sésame, graine de Sesamum indicum.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gengeli · gengeli · French

gengeli · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for gengeli
PropertyValue
Headwordgengeli
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « gengeli » en français

gengelireste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gengeli is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire en Inde du sésame, graine de Sesamum indicum.".

Zero misspellings are on record for gengeli in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gengeli, spelled G-E-N-G-E-L-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom vernaculaire en Inde du sésame, graine de Sesamum indicum.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gengeli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Gengeli, (le) graine employée dans les sacrifices.
  2. On se sert dans l'Inde de l'huile extraite du copra [… ou] de celle de gingeli qui lui est bien inférieure. en note : L'auteur dit Gergelim mais dans le pays on prononce gengeli.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gengeli"?
"gengeli" is spelled G-E-N-G-E-L-I.
What does "gengeli" mean?
As a noun, "gengeli" means: Nom vernaculaire en Inde du sésame, graine de Sesamum indicum.
What language does "gengeli" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list