grande calorie
\ɡʁɑ̃d ka.lɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“grande calorie” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Calorie utilisée dans la diététique, qui vaut environ 4,2 kilojoules, par opposition à la calorie utilisée dans la physique, la chimie et l’ingénierie, qui vaut 1/1000 de grandes calories, soit env...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grande calorie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d ka.lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grande calorie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grande calorie is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d ka.lɔ.ʁi\. 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: "Calorie utilisée dans la diététique, qui vaut environ 4,2 kilojoules, par opposition à la calorie utilisée dans la physique, la chimie et l’ingénierie, qui vaut 1/1000 de grandes calories, soit env...".
grande calorie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grande calorie, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -C-A-L-O-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Calorie utilisée dans la diététique, qui vaut environ 4,2 kilojoules, par opposition à la calorie utilisée dans la physique, la chimie et l’ingénierie, qui vaut 1/1000 de grandes calories, soit environ 4,2 joules.
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Using “grande calorie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -C-A-L-O-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃d ka.lɔ.ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.