granny
\ɡʁa.ni\
The verdict
“granny” is uncommon French (frequency #50,865 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,865
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de « carré granny ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-granny · granny · French
granny · rank #50,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,865
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grandisse
Nearest frequency peer: grandisse (-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 « granny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gouvernant
gouvernant
49,139 corpus weight
- grad
grad
49,138 corpus weight
- grandisse
grandisse
49,137 corpus weight
- granny
granny
49,136 corpus weight
- Gretel
Gretel
49,135 corpus weight
- grinçant
grinçant
49,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « granny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « granny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
granny is uncommon French at frequency #50,865 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de « carré granny ».".
granny has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is granny, spelled G-R-A-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de « carré granny ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how granny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grannys peuvent prendre différentes formes : carrés, cercles, triangles, fleurs, étoiles, losanges, hexagones...
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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