grande gueule

/\ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

grande gueule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu. Pronounced \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\.

Key facts for grande gueule
PropertyValue
Headwordgrande gueule
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grande gueule is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grande gueule is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\. 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: "Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grande gueule in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 grande gueule, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grande gueule"?
"grande gueule" is spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\.
What does "grande gueule" mean?
As a noun, "grande gueule" means: Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu.
How do you pronounce "grande gueule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grande gueule" is \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grande gueule" come from?
"grande gueule" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.