grand
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#136
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grand is anFrenchadj. It means: De dimensions (hauteur/taille, longueur, profondeur, etc.) importantes, qui dépassent celles de ses semblables, ou de longue durée. Par exemple, de volume supérieur à la moyenne (ou normale) des in... Pronounced \ɡʁɑ̃\. It ranks #136 in French word frequency. Often confused with Gras and gray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #136 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for grand, with forms such as "garnd", "ggrand", and "gradn". 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, "Gras", "gray", "grid", 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 grand, spelled G-R-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De dimensions (hauteur/taille, longueur, profondeur, etc.) importantes, qui dépassent celles de ses semblables, ou de longue durée. Par exemple, de volume supérieur à la moyenne (ou normale) des individus de même espèce et sexe et d’âge similaire.
- 2De dimensions (hauteur/taille, longueur, profondeur, etc.) importantes, qui dépassent celles de ses semblables, ou de longue durée. Par exemple, de volume supérieur à la moyenne (ou normale) des individus de même espèce et sexe et d’âge similaire.
- 3Qui a grandi.
- 4En grande quantité. ^(Pas clair)
- 5ou , Beaucoup de. Note d’usage : s’emploie dans une forme négative.
- 6Extrême ; lointain.
- 7Majuscule (en parlant d'une lettre).
- 8Célèbre, réputé, admirable, noble.
- 9Utilisé pour former une locution employée comme titre honorifique, comme dans « grand-duc », « grand-vizir » ou « grand secrétaire ».
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garnd,ggrand,gradn,grandd,grannd,grnad,grrand,rgand
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grand
Misspelling Variants of "grand"
Frequency rank: #136 in French
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