Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definitions: Genie |
GenieNoun1. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Genie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". |
Date "genie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GENIE | English | Global Environment Change Data Network Facility | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GenieSynonyms: djinni (n), djinny (n), jinnee (n), jinni (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Genie |
| English words defined with "genie": Aladdin, Aladdin's lamp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "genie": AGL ♦ channel hopping ♦ GEnie Services, Guendolen ♦ ISP ♦ Sprintnet ♦ The Network, topic drift, topic thread ♦ WPL . (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Genie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (genius, man of genius), German (genius, wiz, wizard), Swedish (genius). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because of you! The only reason why anybody thinks I'm worth anything is because of you! What if they find out I'm not really a prince? What if Jasmine finds out? I'd lose her. Genie, I can't keep this up on my own. I can't wish you free. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) Kazaam! You know, the one where Shaquille O'Neal plays a genie. (Scary Movie; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans) Well, you're not gonna believe this, but I just saw a genie with light brown hair chasing a flying sorceress! (Broom-Stick Bunny; writing credit: Tedd Pierce) When joined the ring forms the word Shazzan, and with this magical command, they are transported back to the fabled land of the Arabian Knights! Here they meet their genie, Shazzan. (Shazzan!; writing credit: Walter Black; William Lutz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Touch of Genie (1974) Das Blaue Palais: Das Genie (1974) The Mislayed Genie (1972) Genie und Galgenstrick (1965) The Missing Genie (1963) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books | |||
Periodicals | |||
Theater & Movies | |||
High Tech |
| ||
Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Ochoa on Sky Genie.Credit: NASA. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Genie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.69% of the time. "Genie" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.69% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "genie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Genie | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,568 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Genie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Genie." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Eugene | Male | English | N/A |
| Genie | Female | English | Eugénie |
| Eugénie | Female | French | Eugene |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "genie": genie Services. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
genie | 1,136 |
genie garage door opener | 750 |
game genie | 659 |
genie teeny | 347 |
genie garage door | 327 |
genie teenie | 270 |
dvd genie | 217 |
genie in a bottle | 182 |
genie lift | 177 |
diaper genie | 158 |
i dream of genie | 127 |
lawn genie | 103 |
genie tiny | 102 |
genie door opener | 84 |
sewing genie | 79 |
genie garage | 75 |
genie wild | 66 |
genie industry | 54 |
genie intellicode | 47 |
genie francis | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "genie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | xhind (ghost, jinn, jinnee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه اندامهای تناسلی , تناسلی (Reproductive, Sexual), تولیدکننده (Producer, Productive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dienstbarer geist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τζίνι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dzsinn (djinn, djinni, jinn, jinnee, jinni, Jinny), tündér (elf, Faerie, fairy, Fay, pixie, pixy, sprite, sylph, urchin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | semangat (courage, elan, esprit, flush, gusto, mercury, pep, spirit, verve, zeal, zest), jin (elf, jinn), hantu (apparition, fiend, ghost, goblin, imp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | genio (genius, gift, talent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jinnee (Jane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eniegay gênio (daemon, ethyl, Genista, genius, spirit, temper), jovialmente. (various references) джин (geneva 2, gin, jinn, jinnee). (various references) genio (brains, esprit, genius, mind, nature, spirit, temper, temperament). (various references) ande (genius, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, mind, spirit). (various references) peri (elf, Faerie, faery, fairy, Fay, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), cin (clever person, demon, elf, Geneva, gin, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hob, hobgoblin, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin). (various references) дух (esprit, mind, psyche, soul, spirit), джин (gin, satin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "genie": genies. (additional references) | |
Words containing "genie": autogenies, biogenies, cryogenies, cytogenies, embryogenies, endogenies, epeirogenies, heterogenies, homogenies, isogenies, lysogenies, monogenies, ontogenies, oogenies, orogenies, phylogenies, progenies, xenogenies. (additional references) | |
| |
"Genie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eenie, enie, gainee, Ganaveh, ganic, ganie, gany, garnie, gbejniet, gebie, Geekie, geena, geenie, geeny, geine, gemii, genae, Genbel, Gence, gende, Geneen, genei, geneic, Genel, geney, geni, genime, genin, genis, Genji, genki, Genlisea, Gennoe, geno, gente, genti, genue, genug, genuie, genuit, genwise, geny, Genzen, Genzi, geria, gernie, gesio, gienke, Giii, ginie, ginir, Ginneken, ginnie, giny, Glenice, gnise, goine, gonie, Gonio, Gopnik, greyie, gsni, Guenage, guine, guinie, gunie, gunkie, gunnii, Gwennie, gwine, jenie, Neniae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "genie" (pronounced jē"nē) |
| 3 | -ē" n ē | bikini, Domine, fettuccine, Larine, linguine, maline, martini, Meany, Sweeny, teeny, weeny, zucchini. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n" | |
-1 letter: gene, gien. | |
-2 letters: eng, gee, gen, gie, gin, nee. | |
-3 letters: en, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n" | |
+1 letter: engine, eyeing, feeing, geeing, genies, jeeing, peeing, seeing, signee, teeing. | |
+2 letters: agenize, beefing, beeping, beguine, beignet, deeding, deeming, deigned, deleing, dreeing, energid, engined, engines, epigean, epigene, epigone, eugenia, eugenic, evening, exigent, feeding, feeling, feezing, feigned, feigner, fleeing, freeing, generic, genesis, genetic, genoise, gentile, genuine, greeing, greenie, greisen, heeding, heeling, heezing, hygiene, ingenue, integer, jeeping, jeering, keeking, keeling, keening, keeping, kneeing, leering, lineage, meeting, needing, neglige, neighed, peeking, peeling, peening, peeping, peering, peeving, preeing, rebegin, reeding, reefing, reeking, reeling, reeving, regimen, reginae, regiven, rehinge, reigned, seeding, seeings, seeking, seeling, seeming, seeping, signees, skeeing, soignee, teeming, treeing, veering, weeding, weening, weeping, weeting. | |
+3 letters: adeeming, agencies, agenesia, agenesis, agenetic, agenized, agenizes, agentive, agreeing, algerine, alienage, anergies, antigene, assignee, bedewing, beeswing, beetling, befinger, befringe, beginner, beguines, beignets, bemingle, beringed, beveling, bewinged, bleeding, bleeping, breeding, breezing, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cleeking, cooeeing, creeling, creeping, deleting, deringer, desexing, designed, designee, designer, develing, edginess, egesting, egestion, eighteen, ejecting, electing, eloigned, eloigner, emceeing, emending, emerging, energids, energies, energise, energize, engilded, engineer, enginery, engirded, engirdle, ensilage, entering, envisage, epigenic, epigones, erecting, erigeron, eringoes, erogenic, eugenias, eugenics, eugenist, evenings, everting, exerting, exigence, exigency, feedings, feelings, feigners, fevering, fingered, fingerer, fleecing, fleering, fleeting, freezing, galenite, gelatine, geminate, generics, genetics, genitive, geniture, geniuses, genocide, genoises, gentiles, gentrice, gentries, gesneria, gingeley, gingered, gleeking, gleeting, glenlike, gneisses, gratinee, greenier, greenies, greening, greenish, greeting, greisens, heelings, heighten, hygienes, indigene, ingenues, ingested, integers, interage, inveigle, jeweling, keepings, kneeling, leeching, legatine, leveeing, leveling, levering, liegeman, liegemen, lineages, lingered, lingerer, lingerie, meetings, meninges, meringue, metering, needling, negative, negligee, negliges, oogenies, peelings, peregrin, perigean, petering, pfennige, preening, pureeing, queening, queering, queueing, razeeing, rebegins, receding, redesign, redyeing, reedings, reedling, reesting, regained, regainer, regimens, regiment, reguline, rehinged, rehinges, reignite, rekeying, reneging, renewing, renigged, reseeing, resewing, resigned, resigner, reveling, revering, seceding, seedling, seemings, seething, segueing, seigneur, severing, sewering, sheening, sheering, sheeting, signeted, sleeking, sleeping, sleeting, sleeving, smeeking, sneering, sneezing, speeding, speeling, speering, steeking, steeling, steeping, steering, steeving, sweeping, sweeting, teething, telexing, tweeting, tweezing, unseeing, vignette, wedeling, weepings, weighmen, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing. | |
+4 letters: agenesias, agentives, agentries, algerines, alienages, anglesite, antigenes, argentine, argentite, assignees, aubergine, beavering, bedecking, beelining, beestings, beeswings, befingers, befleaing, befringed, befringes, begetting, beginners, beheading, beleaping, believing, bemeaning, bemingled, bemingles, bengaline, benighted, bereaving, beseeming, besetting, besieging, bettering, bevelling, beweeping, bigeneric, bignesses, biogenies, bleedings, breeching, breedings, breveting, careening, careering, ceilinged, cementing, centering, clientage, cogencies, concierge, congeeing, congeries, consignee, creeshing, creneling, deadening, deafening, debeaking, deceasing, deceiving, decerning, decreeing, deepening, defeating, defecting, defending, defensing, deferring, defleaing, degerming, dejecting, deleading, deleaving, demeaning, dementing, demerging, denigrate, depending, deperming, depleting, deraigned, deringers, derringer, deserting, deserving, designate, designees, designers, detecting, deterging, deterring, detesting, deveining, devesting, dieseling, digenetic, diligence, disengage, divergent, effecting, egestions, eglantine, egressing, egression, eigenmode, eighteens, elegising, elegizing, elevating, eloigners, embedding, embleming, enameling, endearing, endoergic, endogenic, energetic, energised, energises, energized, energizer, energizes, engineers, engirdled, engirdles, englished, englishes, engrailed, engrained, enlighten, enmeshing, enologies, enserfing, ensilaged, ensilages, envisaged, envisages, epigynies, erigerons, eschewing, espionage, esteeming, eugenists, euglenoid, evangelic, exceeding, excelling, excepting, excessing, excreting, executing, exempting, exergonic, exigences, exigently, expecting, expelling, expending, expensing, experting, exsecting, exserting, extending, farseeing, feelingly, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fingerers, fleeching, foreigner, gaberdine, galenites, garnishee, gelatines, gelignite, geminated, geminates, gendering, genetical, genitives, genitures, genocides, gentrices, genuinely, germanize, germinate, gerundive, gesneriad, gettering, gingeleys, gingelies, glistened, glycerine, gneissose, gnomelike, grapevine, gratineed, gratinees, greeniest, greenings, greenling, greenmail, greensick, greenwing, greetings, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, guideline, gunneries, heehawing, hegemonic, heightens, helmeting, ignescent, impregned, indigence, indigenes, inelegant, ingestive, ingresses, inselberg, integrate, inveighed, inveigher, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, isogeneic, isogenies, jeeringly, jewelling, kenneling, kerneling, ketogenic, laveering, leavening, lechering, leeringly, legginess, lengthier, lessening, lettering, levelling, lightened, lightener, lingerers, lingeries, magnesite, magnetise, magnetite, magnetize, menagerie, meningeal, meringues, metheglin, neatening, needlings, negatived, negatives, negligees, negligent, negotiate, negritude, neologies, neutering, oogenesis, oogenetic, orangerie, orogenies, outseeing, pedogenic, pelleting, peltering, peppering, peregrine, peregrins, pestering, pigeonite, pigmented, preceding, progenies, realigned, rebelling, receiving, recessing, rechewing, recognise, recognize, recoinage, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redingote, reearning, reechoing, reediting, reedlings, reevoking, refecting, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, reflexing, refueling, regainers, regearing, regencies, regiments, rehearing, reheating, reheeling, rehemming, reignited, reignites, reimagine, rejecting, releasing, relending, relenting, reletting, relieving, remedying, remeeting, remelting, remending, remerging, rendering, renesting, reopening, repealing, repeating, repegging, repelling, repenting, reperking, rereading, resealing, reseating, resecting, reseeding, reseeking, reseizing, reselling, resending, resenting, reserving, resetting, reshingle, reshoeing, resigners, reteaming, retearing, retelling, retesting, retighten, revealing, revelling, revenging, reverbing, reversing, reverting, revesting, revetting, reviewing, reweaving, rewedding, rewelding, rewetting, ridgeline, screeding, screening, secerning, secreting, seedlings, seemingly, seesawing, seigneurs, seigneury, selecting, sheetings, sightseen, skewering, sleepings, sniggered, sniggerer, sovereign, speedings, speerings, squeezing, steevings, stereoing, stingaree, streeking, streeling, sweepings, sweetings, synergies, syngeneic, tangerine, teaseling, teazeling, teemingly, teetering, teethings, telegenic, telfering, telneting, tempering, tendering, tentering, tepefying, tethering, threeping, tightened, tightener, tweedling, unfeeling, unfeigned, unfreeing, unheeding, unreeling, unreeving, unweeting, urgencies, veeringly, veneering, vignetted, vignetter, vignettes, villenage, vinegared, weakening, weaseling, weeknight, weeweeing, weltering, wendigoes, westering, wheedling, wheelings, wheepling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 69 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. .. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0069 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171807571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.