gagner la graine

/\ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\/ verb

The verdict

“gagner la graine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gagner de quoi vivre, notamment en travaillant.

Key facts for gagner la graine
PropertyValue
Headwordgagner la graine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “gagner la graine” sits in French frequency

gagner la graine falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gagner la graine is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\. 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: "Gagner de quoi vivre, notamment en travaillant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for gagner la graine 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 gagner la graine, spelled G-A-G-N-E-R- -L-A- -G-R-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gagner de quoi vivre, notamment en travaillant.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gagner la graine"?
"gagner la graine" is spelled G-A-G-N-E-R- -L-A- -G-R-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\.
What does "gagner la graine" mean?
As a verb, "gagner la graine" means: Gagner de quoi vivre, notamment en travaillant.
How do you pronounce "gagner la graine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gagner la graine" is \ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gagner la graine" come from?
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Using “gagner la graine”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is G-A-G-N-E-R- -L-A- -G-R-A-I-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɡɑ.ɲe la ɡʁɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.