grand magasin
\ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\
The verdict
“grand magasin” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Magasin de commerce de détail de grande taille, proposant à la vente un vaste assortiment de marchandises, comportant généralement plusieurs étages, et où le paiement se fait normalement au niveau ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand magasin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand magasin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand magasin is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\. 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: "Magasin de commerce de détail de grande taille, proposant à la vente un vaste assortiment de marchandises, comportant généralement plusieurs étages, et où le paiement se fait normalement au niveau ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grand magasin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grand magasin, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -M-A-G-A-S-I-N.
Definition
- 1Magasin de commerce de détail de grande taille, proposant à la vente un vaste assortiment de marchandises, comportant généralement plusieurs étages, et où le paiement se fait normalement au niveau de chaque rayon.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “grand magasin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -M-A-G-A-S-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.