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grainetier

French, noun/ɡʁɛ.nə.tje/

grainetier is spelled G-R-A-I-N-E-T-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grainetier is a French masculine noun meaning “seed / grain merchant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Officier au grenier à sel”.

What does grainetier mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineseed / grain merchant

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Marchand de graines ou de grains. 2. Officier au grenier à sel.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of grainetier

  • grainetiers plural
  • grainetière feminine
  • grènetier dated

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce grainetier?

  • /ɡʁɛ.nə.tje/
  • /ɡʁe.nə.tje/
  • \ɡʁɛ.nə.tje\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is grainetier in French?

grainetier appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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