gmelin
The verdict
“gmelin” is uncommon French (frequency #77,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,561
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante du genre Gmelina dans la famille des Verbénacées
Corpus desk
Index FR-gmelin · gmelin · French
gmelin · rank #77,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,561
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gombe
Nearest frequency peer: Gombe (+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 « gmelin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gerbier
gerbier
22,445 corpus weight
- germent
germent
22,444 corpus weight
- gmelin
gmelin
22,440 corpus weight
- Gombe
Gombe
22,439 corpus weight
- Gonçalves
Gonçalves
22,438 corpus weight
- goodwill
goodwill
22,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gmelin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gmelin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gmelin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gmelin is uncommon French at frequency #77,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante du genre Gmelina dans la famille des Verbénacées".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gmelin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gmelin, spelled G-M-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Plante du genre Gmelina dans la famille des Verbénacées
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gmelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On distingue le gmelin asiatique de Linné, et le gmelin à petites fleurs de Roxburg, arbre qui est très épineux.
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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