gosser des poils de grenouille
\ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\
The verdict
“gosser des poils de grenouille” 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
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gosser des poils de grenouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gosser des poils de grenouille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gosser des poils de grenouille is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\. 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: "Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gosser des poils de grenouille in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gosser des poils de grenouille, spelled G-O-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S- -D-E- -G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.
Synonyms
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 G-O-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S- -D-E- -G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E - 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.