ambre gris
\ɑ̃.bʁə ɡʁi\
The verdict
“ambre gris” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Concrétion qui se forme à l’intérieur des intestins du cachalot et qui a la consistance de la cire et une couleur cendrée, parsemée de taches jaunes et noirâtres et qui est utilisé en parfumerie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambre gris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁə ɡʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ambre gris” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ambre gris is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bʁə ɡʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Concrétion qui se forme à l’intérieur des intestins du cachalot et qui a la consistance de la cire et une couleur cendrée, parsemée de taches jaunes et noirâtres et qui est utilisé en parfumerie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ambre gris in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ambre gris, spelled A-M-B-R-E- -G-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Concrétion qui se forme à l’intérieur des intestins du cachalot et qui a la consistance de la cire et une couleur cendrée, parsemée de taches jaunes et noirâtres et qui est utilisé en parfumerie.
This word in other languages
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Using “ambre gris”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-M-B-R-E- -G-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.