grain de beauté
\ɡʁɛ̃ də bo.te\
The verdict
“grain de beauté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tache sur la peau humaine, souvent de couleur marron ou noire, qui évolue parfois en mélanomes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grain-de-beaute · grain de beauté · French
grain de beauté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | grain de beauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ̃ də bo.te\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grain de beauté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grain de beauté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ̃ də bo.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite tache sur la peau humaine, souvent de couleur marron ou noire, qui évolue parfois en mélanomes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grain de beauté, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grain de beauté, spelled G-R-A-I-N- -D-E- -B-E-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Petite tache sur la peau humaine, souvent de couleur marron ou noire, qui évolue parfois en mélanomes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grain de beauté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il était perplexe devant un beau cas, il tripotait d’une main nerveuse un grain de beauté velu qu’il avait au visage.
Mais Mistress Arline n’est que grande et n’est que belle. Elle n’a qu’un grain de beauté, de même que l’or pur n’a qu’un poinçon.
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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.