Grille
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,461
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
Grille is aGermannoun. It means: durch zirpende Laute auffallendes Insekt (Familie Gryllidae) Pronounced [ˈɡʁɪlə]. Often confused with Groll and Gülle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁɪlə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Grille is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡʁɪlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,461 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Grille, with forms such as "ggrille", "girlle", and "grile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Groll", "Gülle", "Grippe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Grille, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch zirpende Laute auffallendes Insekt (Familie Gryllidae)
- 2vom Sprecher als unvernünftig, „dumm“ angesehene Idee; sonderbare, trübe Gedanken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrille,girlle,grile,grilel,grlile,grrille,rgille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Grille
Misspelling Variants of "Grille"
Frequency rank: #47,461 in German
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