grand requin blanc
\ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.kɛ̃ blɑ̃\
The verdict
“grand requin blanc” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de requin exceptionnellement grand vivant dans toutes les mers tempérées du globe, à 5 paires de fentes branchiales, à nageoire caudale presque symétrique, au dos gris, au ventre blanchâtre,...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand requin blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.kɛ̃ blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand requin blanc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand requin blanc is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.kɛ̃ blɑ̃\. 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: "Espèce de requin exceptionnellement grand vivant dans toutes les mers tempérées du globe, à 5 paires de fentes branchiales, à nageoire caudale presque symétrique, au dos gris, au ventre blanchâtre,...".
No misspelling variants are generated for grand requin blanc 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 requin blanc, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-Q-U-I-N- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de requin exceptionnellement grand vivant dans toutes les mers tempérées du globe, à 5 paires de fentes branchiales, à nageoire caudale presque symétrique, au dos gris, au ventre blanchâtre, considéré comme dangereux.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-Q-U-I-N- -B-L-A-N-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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