grange

/\ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,169

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bâtiment attenant à la ferme, entrepôt pour le foin, la paille ou le matériel agricole. Pronounced \ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\. Often confused with grave and grant.

Key facts for grange
PropertyValue
Headwordgrange
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,169
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grange in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grange is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,169 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for grange, with forms such as "garnge", "ggrange", and "gragne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grave", "grant", "grasse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 grange, spelled G-R-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bâtiment attenant à la ferme, entrepôt pour le foin, la paille ou le matériel agricole.
  2. 2
    Bâtiment où on rangeait le blé en gerbes et où on le battait.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garnge,ggrange,gragne,graneg,grangge,grannge,grnage,grrange,rgange

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grange

Misspelling Variants of "grange"

garnge6ggrange7gragne6graneg6grangge7grannge7grnage6grrange7
Misspelling Variants of "grange"

Frequency rank: #10,169 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grange"?
"grange" is spelled G-R-A-N-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\.
What does "grange" mean?
As a noun, "grange" means: Bâtiment attenant à la ferme, entrepôt pour le foin, la paille ou le matériel agricole.
What words are commonly confused with "grange"?
"grange" is commonly confused with "grave", "grant", "grasse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grange"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grange" is \ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grange" come from?
"grange" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.