grande gueule
\ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\
The verdict
“grande gueule” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grande gueule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grande gueule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grande gueule is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grande gueule, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grande gueule, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie quelqu’un qui parle beaucoup, a le verbe haut, mais qui, souvent, agit peu.
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.
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Using “grande gueule”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.