igname
\i.ɲam\
The verdict
“igname” is uncommon French (frequency #61,606 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,606
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plantes grimpantes du genre Dioscorea, dont certaines ont une racine farineuse et alimentaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-igname · igname · French
igname · rank #61,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,606
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IGS
Nearest frequency peer: IGS (+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 « igname »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hémorragiqu…
hémorragiques
38,398 corpus weight
- hépatites
hépatites
38,397 corpus weight
- igname
igname
38,395 corpus weight
- IGS
IGS
38,394 corpus weight
- imbuvable
imbuvable
38,393 corpus weight
- impactées
impactées
38,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « igname » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | igname |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɲam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « igname » en français
Rare enough to double-check
igname is uncommon French at frequency #61,606 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ɲam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for igname in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is igname, spelled I-G-N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Plantes grimpantes du genre Dioscorea, dont certaines ont une racine farineuse et alimentaire.
- 2Cette racine consommable elle-même. Elle est parfois confondue avec la patate douce (Ipomoea batatas).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how igname appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’igname est une culture alimentaire tropicale importante. Ses tubercules riches en amidon constituent un aliment de base dans de nombreuses régions. Dans leurs zones d’origine, les ignames ont souvent une forte valeur culturelle et sont l’objet de rites agraires. Les tubercules de certaines espèces sont utilisés dans les pharmacopées traditionnelles et p…
Il distribua en notre présence, à quelques-unes de ses femmes, des ignames qu’il venait de cueillir.
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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