genin
The verdict
“genin” is uncommon French (frequency #92,775 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,775
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de ganin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genin · genin · French
genin · rank #92,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,775
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gayant
Nearest frequency peer: gayant (-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 « genin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gambe
gambe
7,231 corpus weight
- gaufrier
gaufrier
7,229 corpus weight
- gayant
gayant
7,227 corpus weight
- genin
genin
7,226 corpus weight
- germon
germon
7,225 corpus weight
- GFA
GFA
7,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « genin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « genin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
genin is uncommon French at frequency #92,775 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de ganin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for genin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is genin, spelled G-E-N-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de ganin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how genin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
genin e oa ar gwir, a-benn er fin
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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