grecques
\ɡʁɛk\
The verdict
“grecques” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,974
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grecques · grecques · French
grecques · rank #12,974 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,974
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gray
Nearest frequency peer: gray (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « grecques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gatineau
Gatineau
87,030 corpus weight
- gazette
gazette
87,029 corpus weight
- gray
gray
87,028 corpus weight
- grecques
grecques
87,027 corpus weight
- grenades
grenades
87,026 corpus weight
- grès
grès
87,025 corpus weight
What this shows « grecques » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | grecques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grecques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around grecques (IPA \ɡʁɛk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de grec.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for grecques, with forms such as "gercques", "ggrecques", and "grceques". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "grecs", "grecque", "grec", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grecques, spelled G-R-E-C-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de grec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grecques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe une armoire où chacun met l’habit de travail, les manches en toile, les garde-vue, casquettes, calottes grecques et autres ustensiles du métier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gercques
- ggrecques
- grceques
- greccques
- grecqeus
- grecqques
- grecquess
- grecquse
- grecuqes
- greqcues
- grrecques
- rgecques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grecques - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grecques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).