ginseng
\(d)ʒin.sɛŋ\
The verdict
“ginseng” is uncommon French (frequency #64,475 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,475
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante originaire d’Asie de l’Est, dont la racine est réputée pour ses propriétés pharmaceutiques, son appellation binomiale est Panax ginseng. → voir Panax
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ginseng |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \(d)ʒin.sɛŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ginseng” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ginseng is uncommon French at frequency #64,475 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \(d)ʒin.sɛŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ginseng, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ginseng, spelled G-I-N-S-E-N-G.
Definition
- 1Plante originaire d’Asie de l’Est, dont la racine est réputée pour ses propriétés pharmaceutiques, son appellation binomiale est Panax ginseng. → voir Panax
- 2Extrait de cette plante, racine de cette plante.
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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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Using “ginseng”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-I-N-S-E-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.