Granier
\gʁa.nje\
The verdict
“Granier” is uncommon French (frequency #52,718 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,718
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-granier · Granier · French
Granier · rank #52,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,718
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goûtent
Nearest frequency peer: goûtent (-1 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 « Granier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- genêts
genêts
47,287 corpus weight
- glaise
glaise
47,286 corpus weight
- glauques
glauques
47,285 corpus weight
- goûtent
goûtent
47,284 corpus weight
- Granier
Granier
47,283 corpus weight
- gretchen
gretchen
47,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Granier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Granier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \gʁa.nje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Granier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Granier is uncommon French at frequency #52,718 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \gʁa.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Granier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Granier, spelled G-R-A-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Granier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lara Granier et Amélie Riou représentent la France.
Oui, Clarisse Mairot, Lucie Granier (co-meilleures marqueuses bisontines, avec 6 buts) et leurs copines sont passées tout près d'une formidable "remontada"…
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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