gmelin

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gmelin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gmelin
PropertyValue
Headwordgmelin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#77,561
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « gmelin » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gmelintombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Gombe » (#77,562), « Gonçalves » (#77,563), « goodwill » (#77,564). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gmelin » est au #77,561. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Plante du genre Gmelina dans la famille des Verbénacées

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gmelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gmelin"?
"gmelin" is spelled G-M-E-L-I-N.
What does "gmelin" mean?
As a noun, "gmelin" means: Plante du genre Gmelina dans la famille des Verbénacées
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gmelin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list