grasse

/\ɡʁɑs\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,967

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grasse is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de gras. Pronounced \ɡʁɑs\. It ranks #7,967 in French word frequency. Often confused with grave and grise.

Key facts for grasse
PropertyValue
Headwordgrasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɡʁɑs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,967
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grasse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grasse is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑs\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,967 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de gras.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grasse, with forms such as "garsse", "ggrasse", and "grase". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grave", "grise", "gross", 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 grasse, spelled G-R-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de gras.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garsse,ggrasse,grase,grases,grrasse,grsase,rgasse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grasse

Misspelling Variants of "grasse"

garsse6ggrasse7grase5grases6grrasse7grsase6rgasse6
Misspelling Variants of "grasse"

Frequency rank: #7,967 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grasse"?
"grasse" is spelled G-R-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɑs\.
What does "grasse" mean?
As an adj, "grasse" means: Féminin singulier de gras.
What words are commonly confused with "grasse"?
"grasse" is commonly confused with "grave", "grise", "gross". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grasse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grasse" is \ɡʁɑs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grasse" come from?
"grasse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.