Grande Muraille
The verdict
“Grande Muraille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ensemble de fortifications militaires chinoises construites, détruites et reconstruites en plusieurs fois et plusieurs endroits entre le IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C. et le XVIIᵉ siècle pour marquer et déf...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grande Muraille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Grande Muraille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Grande Muraille is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj\. 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: "Ensemble de fortifications militaires chinoises construites, détruites et reconstruites en plusieurs fois et plusieurs endroits entre le IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C. et le XVIIᵉ siècle pour marquer et déf...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Grande Muraille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 Muraille, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de fortifications militaires chinoises construites, détruites et reconstruites en plusieurs fois et plusieurs endroits entre le IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C. et le XVIIᵉ siècle pour marquer et défendre la frontière nord de la Chine.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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