grappiller
\ɡʁa.pi.je\
The verdict
“grappiller” is uncommon French (frequency #57,986 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,986
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cueillir ce qui reste de raisins dans une vigne, après qu’elle a été vendangée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grappiller · grappiller · French
grappiller · rank #57,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,986
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grandira
Nearest frequency peer: grandira (-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 « grappiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gouverneure
gouverneure
42,017 corpus weight
- grandira
grandira
42,016 corpus weight
- grappiller
grappiller
42,015 corpus weight
- grincements
grincements
42,014 corpus weight
- guatémaltèq…
guatémaltèque
42,013 corpus weight
- GUD
GUD
42,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grappiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grappiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.pi.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grappiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grappiller is uncommon French at frequency #57,986 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.pi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grappiller, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 grappiller, spelled G-R-A-P-P-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cueillir ce qui reste de raisins dans une vigne, après qu’elle a été vendangée.
- 2Faire quelque petit gain plus ou moins illicite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grappiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès que les vendangeurs ont achevé la vendange, il est permis d’aller grappiller.
Raguet grappillait sur le pays d’autres menues captures, poules, oies, bois et graines.
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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