Grèce

/\ɡʁɛs\/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,619

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Grèce is aFrenchname. It means: Pays habité par les Grecs (Grèce actuelle, Bulgarie, Asie mineure, Chypre, Grande-Grèce, etc.) Pronounced \ɡʁɛs\. It ranks #2,619 in French word frequency. Often confused with Greg and grey.

Key facts for Grèce
PropertyValue
HeadwordGrèce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ɡʁɛs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,619
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Grèce is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,619 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Grèce, with forms such as "ggrèce", "grcèe", and "grece". 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, "Greg", "grey", "grès", 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 Grèce, spelled G-R-È-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pays habité par les Grecs (Grèce actuelle, Bulgarie, Asie mineure, Chypre, Grande-Grèce, etc.)
  2. 2
    Pays d’Europe du Sud situé à l’extrémité sud de la péninsule des Balkans, bordé au nord par l’Albanie et la Macédoine du Nord, au nord-est par la Bulgarie et la Turquie, à l’est par la mer Égée, au sud par la mer Méditerranée et à l’ouest par la mer Ionienne. Sa capitale est Athènes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggrèce,grcèe,grece,grrèce,grècce,grèec,gèrce,rgèce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Grèce

Misspelling Variants of "Grèce"

ggrèce6grcèe5grece5grrèce6grècce6grèec5gèrce5rgèce5
Misspelling Variants of "Grèce"

Frequency rank: #2,619 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Grèce"?
"Grèce" is spelled G-R-È-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɛs\.
What does "Grèce" mean?
As a name, "Grèce" means: Pays habité par les Grecs (Grèce actuelle, Bulgarie, Asie mineure, Chypre, Grande-Grèce, etc.)
What words are commonly confused with "Grèce"?
"Grèce" is commonly confused with "Greg", "grey", "grès". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Grèce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Grèce" is \ɡʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Grèce" come from?
"Grèce" 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.