grass
\ɡɹɑːs\
The verdict
“grass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,828) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,828
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grass · grass · French
grass · rank #38,828 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,828
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grammar
Nearest frequency peer: grammar (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « grass »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gonds
gonds
61,176 corpus weight
- gourmandes
gourmandes
61,175 corpus weight
- grammar
grammar
61,174 corpus weight
- grass
grass
61,173 corpus weight
- grimpent
grimpent
61,171 corpus weight
- Groupama
Groupama
61,170 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « grass » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɹɑːs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « grass »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for grass is neighbouring look-alikes ("gros", "gris", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡɹɑːs\. Frequency #38,828 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for grass, with forms such as "ggrass", "grrass", and "grsas". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gros", "gris", "gray", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grass, spelled G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Herbe.
- 2Pelouse, gazon.
- 3Marijuana.
- 4Mouchard, policier infiltré.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrass
- grrass
- grsas
- rgass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grass - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grass", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).