de gros en gros
\də ɡʁo.z‿ɑ̃ ɡʁo\
The verdict
“de gros en gros” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D’une façon générale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de gros en gros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də ɡʁo.z‿ɑ̃ ɡʁo\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de gros en gros” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de gros en gros is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də ɡʁo.z‿ɑ̃ ɡʁo\. 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: "D’une façon générale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de gros en gros in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is de gros en gros, spelled D-E- -G-R-O-S- -E-N- -G-R-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’une façon générale.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -G-R-O-S- -E-N- -G-R-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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