grande personne
\ɡʁɑ̃d pɛʁ.sɔn\
The verdict
“grande personne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adulte, personne qui n’est plus un enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grande-personne · grande personne · French
grande personne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 personne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d pɛʁ.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grande personne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grande personne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃d pɛʁ.sɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adulte, personne qui n’est plus un enfant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for grande personne in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grande personne, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Adulte, personne qui n’est plus un enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grande personne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes les grandes personnes ont d’abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d’entre elles s’en souviennent.)
Il est vrai que, moi du moins, nous étions devenus de « grandes personnes », que nous allions être des « amants », qui sait, tomber dans la vulgarité d’une liaison comme une autre.
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.