Grèce
\ɡʁɛs\
The verdict
“Grèce” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,619 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #2,619
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays habité par les Grecs (Grèce actuelle, Bulgarie, Asie mineure, Chypre, Grande-Grèce, etc.)
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 | Grèce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Grèce” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Grèce is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Grèce, with forms such as "ggrèce", "grcèe", and "grece". 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, "Greg", "grey", "grès", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Grèce, spelled G-R-È-C-E.
Definition
- 1Pays habité par les Grecs (Grèce actuelle, Bulgarie, Asie mineure, Chypre, Grande-Grèce, etc.)
- 2Pays 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Grèce - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Grèce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-È-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Greg” - see the side-by-side comparison. Grèce vs Greg
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.