granulé
\ɡʁa.ny.le\
The verdict
“granulé” is uncommon French (frequency #76,628 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,628
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formé de petits grains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-granule · granulé · French
granulé · rank #76,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,628
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH granuleuse
Nearest frequency peer: granuleuse (-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 « granulé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grandin
Grandin
23,376 corpus weight
- grandissez
grandissez
23,375 corpus weight
- granuleuse
granuleuse
23,374 corpus weight
- granulé
granulé
23,373 corpus weight
- graziano
graziano
23,372 corpus weight
- grimpante
grimpante
23,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « granulé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granulé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ny.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « granulé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
granulé is uncommon French at frequency #76,628 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.ny.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
granulé has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is granulé, spelled G-R-A-N-U-L-É.
Definition
- 1Formé de petits grains.
- 2Qui renferme ou porte des granulations, ou qui en a l’apparence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how granulé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marbre granulé.
Chocolat granulé.
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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