grappin
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,084
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
grappin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite ancre qui a quatre ou cinq branches recourbées et dont on se sert pour les embarcations telles que chaloupes, canots, etc. Pronounced \ɡʁa.pɛ̃\. Often confused with gratin and grain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grappin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grappin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.pɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,084 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for grappin, with forms such as "garppin", "ggrappin", and "grapin". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gratin", "grain", "grappe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grappin, spelled G-R-A-P-P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite ancre qui a quatre ou cinq branches recourbées et dont on se sert pour les embarcations telles que chaloupes, canots, etc.
- 2Instrument de fer à plusieurs pointes recourbées dont on se sert pour faciliter l’abordage d'un navire ou l’atterrissage.
- 3Sorte de pince à deux mâchoires actionnée par des vérins hydrauliques, située au bout du bras d’une grue et qui sert à manipuler des troncs d’arbres abattus.
- 4Nom donné au diable par le Curé d’Ars.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garppin,ggrappin,grapin,grapipn,grappinn,grappni,grpapin,grrappin,rgappin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "grappin"
Frequency rank: #45,084 in French
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