graisseuse
\ɡʁɛ.søz\
The verdict
“graisseuse” is uncommon French (frequency #56,621 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,621
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière qui graisse les machines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graisseuse · graisseuse · French
graisseuse · rank #56,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,621
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gonalons
Nearest frequency peer: Gonalons (-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 « graisseuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gier
gier
43,385 corpus weight
- Girardot
Girardot
43,382 corpus weight
- Gonalons
Gonalons
43,381 corpus weight
- graisseuse
graisseuse
43,380 corpus weight
- graphic
graphic
43,379 corpus weight
- greater
greater
43,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graisseuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graisseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.søz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graisseuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graisseuse is uncommon French at frequency #56,621 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ.søz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ouvrière qui graisse les machines.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for graisseuse, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is graisseuse, spelled G-R-A-I-S-S-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière qui graisse les machines.
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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