ginseng
\(d)ʒin.sɛŋ\
The verdict
“ginseng” is uncommon French (frequency #64,475 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,475
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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
Corpus desk
Index FR-ginseng · ginseng · French
ginseng · rank #64,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,475
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gavroche
Nearest frequency peer: gavroche (-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 « ginseng »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gatien
Gatien
35,529 corpus weight
- gauler
gauler
35,528 corpus weight
- gavroche
gavroche
35,527 corpus weight
- ginseng
ginseng
35,526 corpus weight
- glycémique
glycémique
35,525 corpus weight
- godes
godes
35,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ginseng » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « ginseng » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ginseng is uncommon French at frequency #64,475 among 2,617 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ginseng appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on y trouve grande abondance de poiſſons, & de cette noble racine de Ginſeng, ſi renommée dans toute la Chine […]
Je viens d'apprendre d'un de nos Ambaſſadeurs la maniere de ſe ſervir du ginſeng, & des nids d'oiſeaux.
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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