gengeli
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gengeli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Nom vernaculaire en Inde du sésame, graine de Sesamum indicum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gengeli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gengeli, (le) graine employée dans les sacrifices.
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.