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grecque

noun

grecque is spelled G-R-E-C-Q-U-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grecque means “An ornament of Greek origin, or Greek-style, especially a fretwork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grecque is grecques.

How many letters and syllables are in grecque?

Letters7: G-R-E-C-Q-U-E
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is grecque?

Grecque appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Forms of grecque

  • grecques plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does grecque mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An ornament of Greek origin, or Greek-style, especially a fretwork

  2. 2

    A vessel with a perforated bottom for making coffee without grounds.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does grecque come from?

French grecque, feminine of grec (“Greek”)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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