grecque
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,092
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
grecque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ornement composé d’une suite de lignes droites qui reviennent sur elles-mêmes, en formant toujours des angles droits. Pronounced \ɡʁɛk\. It ranks #6,092 in French word frequency. Often confused with grecques and grecs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grecque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grecque is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,092 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for grecque, with forms such as "gercque", "ggrecque", and "grceque". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "grecques", "grecs", "Grèce", 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 grecque, spelled G-R-E-C-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ornement composé d’une suite de lignes droites qui reviennent sur elles-mêmes, en formant toujours des angles droits.
- 2Dispositif de contrôle de vitesse des trains automatiques.
- 3Entaille faite par le relieur dans le dos d’un volume pour y faire passer les nerfs ou les ficelles de la couture.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gercque,ggrecque,grceque,greccque,grecqeu,grecqque,grecuqe,greqcue,grrecque,rgecque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grecque
Misspelling Variants of "grecque"
Frequency rank: #6,092 in French
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