grandson
\ˈɡræn.sʌn\
The verdict
“grandson” is uncommon French (frequency #86,754 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,754
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit-fils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grandson · grandson · French
grandson · rank #86,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,754
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gosh
Nearest frequency peer: gosh (-3 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grandson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glaçante
glaçante
13,254 corpus weight
- gobent
gobent
13,252 corpus weight
- gosh
gosh
13,250 corpus weight
- grandson
grandson
13,247 corpus weight
- grasso
grasso
13,244 corpus weight
- greyhound
greyhound
13,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grandson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grandson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡræn.sʌn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grandson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grandson is uncommon French at frequency #86,754 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɡræn.sʌn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit-fils.".
grandson has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grandson, spelled G-R-A-N-D-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit-fils.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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