genièvre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,758
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
genièvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vulgaire du genévrier commun, (Juniperus communis) arbuste odoriférant dont les feuilles sont cylindriques, un peu longues et pointues par le bout, et qui porte, comme le laurier, un petit frui... Pronounced \ʒə.njɛvʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.njɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for genièvre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.njɛvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,758 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for genièvre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is genièvre, spelled G-E-N-I-È-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire du genévrier commun, (Juniperus communis) arbuste odoriférant dont les feuilles sont cylindriques, un peu longues et pointues par le bout, et qui porte, comme le laurier, un petit fruit rond et noir.
- 2Cône bacciforme du genévrier commun : baie de genièvre.
- 3Liqueur faite avec du grain de genièvre.
- 4Bois du genévrier commun.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #66,758 in French
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