grande maison
\ɡʁɑ̃d mɛ.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“grande maison” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surnom donné à la police nationale française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grande-maison · grande maison · French
grande maison · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 maison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d mɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grande maison » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grande maison is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃d mɛ.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for grande maison in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grande maison, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -M-A-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Surnom donné à la police nationale française.
- 2Surnom donné à la SNCF.
- 3Maison longue amérindienne chez les peuples de la Côte pacifique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grande maison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En innovant profondément dans de nombreux domaines, l’ensemble de ces démarches prouve la volonté de « la grande maison » de relever les défis que lui pose l’approche du troisième millénaire.
— Je comprends que le tabou n’est pas prêt de disparaître. — Nous ne pouvions pas faire grand-chose pour changer l’esprit de la préfecture de police, la “grande maison”, la “maison poulaga”.
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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.