grabouiller
\ɡʁa.bu.je\
The verdict
“grabouiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de gribouiller (entre autres dans le langage enfantin, mais pas seulement).
Corpus desk
Index FR-grabouiller · grabouiller · French
grabouiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grabouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grabouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grabouiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de gribouiller (entre autres dans le langage enfantin, mais pas seulement).".
grabouiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grabouiller, spelled G-R-A-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante de gribouiller (entre autres dans le langage enfantin, mais pas seulement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grabouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marie a repris, Marie s’est battue, et de cette période que l’on peut croire heureuse, il reste des brouillons grabouillés hâtivement sur de grandes feuilles quadrillées jetées au fond d’un tiroir de commode, une de ces commodes ventrues au bois patiné qui vous abreuvent de l’illusion d’avoir traversé les siècles et qui échoua, quand la vie eut tout naufr…
Dans le secret de sa chambre, il faisait des dessins qu’il grabouillait de rouge.
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.