grand livre
The verdict
“grand livre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Registre où les entreprises utilisant le système de la comptabilité en partie double tiennent la liste de tous leurs comptes et reportent dans chacun les opérations qui le modifient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand livre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ livʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand livre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand livre is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ livʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Registre où les entreprises utilisant le système de la comptabilité en partie double tiennent la liste de tous leurs comptes et reportent dans chacun les opérations qui le modifient.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grand livre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 livre, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -L-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Registre où les entreprises utilisant le système de la comptabilité en partie double tiennent la liste de tous leurs comptes et reportent dans chacun les opérations qui le modifient.
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Using “grand livre”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -L-I-V-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃ livʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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