grain

/\ɡʁɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,620

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit et semence des céréales contenu dans l’épi. Pronounced \ɡʁɛ̃\. It ranks #6,620 in French word frequency. Often confused with gris and Gras.

Key facts for grain
PropertyValue
Headwordgrain
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,620
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grain in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grain is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,620 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grain, with forms such as "garin", "ggrain", and "grainn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gris", "Gras", "gray", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 grain, spelled G-R-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit et semence des céréales contenu dans l’épi.
  2. 2
    Ce qu’on sème pour la reproduction des céréales.
  3. 3
    Fruit de certaines plantes et de certains arbrisseaux.
  4. 4
    Sous les tropiques, désigne les légumes secs (haricots rouges ou blancs, lentilles…).
  5. 5
    Petit objet de la taille d’une graine.
  6. 6
    Chose faite à peu près en forme de grain.
  7. 7
    Très petite quantité de quelque chose.
  8. 8
    Poids qui était le soixante-douzième d’un gros.
  9. 9
    Unité de mesure de poids valant cinq centigrammes soit le quart d’un carat.
  10. 10
    Petites aspérités présentes à la surface de certaines étoffes, de certains cuirs, de certaines peaux.
  11. 11
    La texture visuelle ou au toucher d’un cuir, d’un bois, d’un papier, d’une peau.
  12. 12
    Petit élément homogène ou monocristallin dans un matériau non amorphe. Parties ténues et serrées entre elles qui forment la masse des pierres, des métaux, etc., et que l’on aperçoit à l’endroit où ils sont cassés ou coupés.
  13. 13
    Plus petit détail visible d’un tirage photographique, d’une impression et qui définit la qualité de sa résolution.
  14. 14
    Vent violent et de peu de durée qui s’élève soudainement et qui est généralement accompagné de précipitations.
  15. 15
    Tonalité de la voix.
  16. 16
    Élément graphique de très faible surface et de contour irrégulier.
  17. 17
    Aspect d’une image résultant de son fractionnement en petits éléments irréguliers.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garin,ggrain,grainn,grani,grian,grrain,rgain

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grain

Misspelling Variants of "grain"

garin5ggrain6grainn6grani5grian5grrain6rgain5
Misspelling Variants of "grain"

Frequency rank: #6,620 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grain"?
"grain" is spelled G-R-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɛ̃\.
What does "grain" mean?
As a noun, "grain" means: Fruit et semence des céréales contenu dans l’épi.
What words are commonly confused with "grain"?
"grain" is commonly confused with "gris", "Gras", "gray". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grain"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grain" is \ɡʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grain" come from?
"grain" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.