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ginseng

Portuguese, noun

ginseng is spelled G-I-N-S-E-N-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ginseng is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ginseng (any of several plants of the genus Panax)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver ginsém, jinsém”.

What does ginseng mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineginseng (any of several plants of the genus Panax)

  2. 2

    masculineginseng (root or extract of the ginseng plant)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ver ginsém, jinsém

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of ginseng

  • ginsengs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to ginseng

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ginseng in Portuguese?

ginseng appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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