grassouillet
\ɡʁɑ.su.jɛ\
The verdict
“grassouillet” is uncommon French (frequency #87,687 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,687
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est assez gras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grassouillet · grassouillet · French
grassouillet · rank #87,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,687
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grandchamp
Nearest frequency peer: Grandchamp (-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 « grassouillet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Godefroi
Godefroi
12,320 corpus weight
- Grandchamp
Grandchamp
12,315 corpus weight
- grassouillet
grassouillet
12,314 corpus weight
- graton
graton
12,312 corpus weight
- gravillons
gravillons
12,311 corpus weight
- grieux
grieux
12,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grassouillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grassouillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ.su.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grassouillet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grassouillet is uncommon French at frequency #87,687 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁɑ.su.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est assez gras.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grassouillet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grassouillet, spelled G-R-A-S-S-O-U-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est assez gras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grassouillet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce Figaro campagnard, ancien teinturier, jouissait de sept à huit mille livres de rente, d’une jolie maison assise sur le coteau, d’une petite femme grassouillette, d’une santé robuste.
Son visage grassouillet offrait les traces d’une dissimulation profonde et d’une arrière-pensée enterrée au fond du cœur.
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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