Grande-Bretagne
\ɡʁɑ̃d.bʁə.taɲ\
The verdict
“Grande-Bretagne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande île située à l’est de l’Irlande, au nord-ouest de l’Europe, et qui constitue la majeure partie de l’Angleterre, de l’Écosse et du Pays de Galles. Son code de subdivision ISO 3166-2 est GBN.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grande-bretagne · Grande-Bretagne · French
Grande-Bretagne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Grande-Bretagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d.bʁə.taɲ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Grande-Bretagne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃d.bʁə.taɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Grande-Bretagne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Grande-Bretagne, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E---B-R-E-T-A-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grande île située à l’est de l’Irlande, au nord-ouest de l’Europe, et qui constitue la majeure partie de l’Angleterre, de l’Écosse et du Pays de Galles. Son code de subdivision ISO 3166-2 est GBN.
- 2Ces trois pays.
- 3Royaume-Uni.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Grande-Bretagne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Bretons, ces émigrants celtiques venus de Grande-Bretagne au Vᵉ siècle de notre ère, avaient ramené en Armorique une langue très analogue à ce parler gaulois que d’ailleurs employait encore à cette époque, la population d’Auvergne.
La Grande-Bretagne, qui s’est isolée tout récemment, et a des conditions écologiques relativement uniformes, a un endémisme presque nul.
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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.