Grab
\ɡʁaːp\
The verdict
“Grab” is uncommon French (frequency #63,032 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,032
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tombe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grab · Grab · French
Grab · rank #63,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,032
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goéland
Nearest frequency peer: goéland (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Grab »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gorki
Gorki
36,972 corpus weight
- goudronnée
goudronnée
36,971 corpus weight
- goéland
goéland
36,970 corpus weight
- Grab
Grab
36,969 corpus weight
- grandie
grandie
36,968 corpus weight
- greffée
greffée
36,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁaːp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grab » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grab is uncommon French at frequency #63,032 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁaːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Grab in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Grab, spelled G-R-A-B.
Definition
- 1Tombe.
- 2Fin, où endroit où quelque chose finit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Grab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Lippen sind nicht mehr die Lippen, die ich fest aufeinandergepresst habe, als ich zusehen musste, wie der Sarg mit meiner Schwester in ihr Grab hinabgelassen wurde.
Unheimlicher als die Geister aber waren die Geschichten über sie: Kunth gab den beiden Jungen Bücher zu lesen, in denen es um Mönche ging, um offene Gräber, Hände, die aus der Tiefe ragten, in der Unterwelt gebraute Elixiere und Séancen, bei denen Tote zu schreckensstarren Zuhörern sprachen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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