granuleux
\ɡʁa.ny.lø\
The verdict
“granuleux” is uncommon French (frequency #74,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,838
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Divisé en petits grains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-granuleux · granuleux · French
granuleux · rank #74,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,838
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grail
Nearest frequency peer: Grail (-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 « granuleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gné
gné
25,166 corpus weight
- gos
gos
25,165 corpus weight
- Grail
Grail
25,164 corpus weight
- granuleux
granuleux
25,163 corpus weight
- grattait
grattait
25,162 corpus weight
- gredin
gredin
25,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « granuleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granuleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ny.lø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « granuleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
granuleux is uncommon French at frequency #74,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.ny.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for granuleux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is granuleux, spelled G-R-A-N-U-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Divisé en petits grains.
- 2Qui présente des granulations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how granuleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Terre granuleuse.
Dans les régions ventrales, la peau est granuleuse, particulièrement fine au niveau des aisselles et des aines.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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