gentiane
\ʒɑ̃.sjan\
The verdict
“gentiane” is uncommon French (frequency #63,019 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,019
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel des plantes du genre Gentiana.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gentiane · gentiane · French
gentiane · rank #63,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,019
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH geller
Nearest frequency peer: geller (-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 « gentiane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galactic
galactic
36,985 corpus weight
- gaude
gaude
36,984 corpus weight
- geller
geller
36,983 corpus weight
- gentiane
gentiane
36,982 corpus weight
- gentrificat…
gentrification
36,981 corpus weight
- genêt
genêt
36,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gentiane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gentiane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.sjan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gentiane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gentiane is uncommon French at frequency #63,019 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒɑ̃.sjan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gentiane in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gentiane, spelled G-E-N-T-I-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel des plantes du genre Gentiana.
- 2Désigne en particulier la gentiane jaune ou Gentiana lutea , grande plante vivace, au suc amer, de la famille des Gentianacées (Gentianaceae) dont elle est le type, elle est originaire des zones d’altitude de l’ouest européen.
- 3Liqueur alcoolisée amère à base des racines de cette plante.
- 4Sirop, tisane faite avec la racine de cette plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentiane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Aconits, les Asphodèles, les grandes Gentianes qui sont la parure de nos pâturages subalpins sont des plantes refusées par le bétail.
La racine de la gentiane est topique utilisée en phytothérapie, autrefois les utilisations pouvaient être médicinales.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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