gennaker
The verdict
“gennaker” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voile d'avant de taille intermédiaire entre le génois et le spinnaker asymétrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gennaker · gennaker · French
gennaker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | gennaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gennaker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gennaker is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voile d'avant de taille intermédiaire entre le génois et le spinnaker asymétrique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gennaker in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gennaker, spelled G-E-N-N-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Voile d'avant de taille intermédiaire entre le génois et le spinnaker asymétrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gennaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils donnent aussitôt l’alerte et un avion des gardes-côtes américains survole le bateau, qui est découvert sous grand-voile seul, le gennaker traînant dans l’eau sur bâbord et personne sur le pont.
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.