grand magasin
\ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\
The verdict
“grand magasin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-grand-magasin · grand magasin · French
grand magasin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
grand magasin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃ ma.ɡa.zɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grand magasin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux carrefours, des plaques tentatrices indiquent Colmar, Strasbourg, Fribourg, avec le nombre de kilomètres le plus réduit, en évitant d’atteindre un chiffre rond, comme dans les grands magasins : 59, 99, 119.
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.