givrée
\ʒi.vʁe\
The verdict
“givrée” is uncommon French (frequency #82,988 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,988
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de givré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-givree · givrée · French
givrée · rank #82,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,988
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 194,371
- PHOTO-FINISH glaber
Nearest frequency peer: glaber (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “givrée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gazaouis
gazaouis
17,017 corpus weight
- Geddes
Geddes
17,016 corpus weight
- givrée
givrée
17,013 corpus weight
- glaber
glaber
17,012 corpus weight
- glyphes
glyphes
17,011 corpus weight
- gob
gob
17,010 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “givrée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | givrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒi.vʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “givrée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
givrée is uncommon French at frequency #82,988 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒi.vʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de givré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for givrée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is givrée, spelled G-I-V-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de givré.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.