gredin
\ɡʁə.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“gredin” is uncommon French (frequency #74,840 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,840
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne malfaisante, dénuée de toute valeur morale, ne méritant aucune considération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gredin · gredin · French
gredin · rank #74,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,840
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grattait
Nearest frequency peer: grattait (-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 « gredin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grail
Grail
25,164 corpus weight
- granuleux
granuleux
25,163 corpus weight
- grattait
grattait
25,162 corpus weight
- gredin
gredin
25,161 corpus weight
- Griff
Griff
25,160 corpus weight
- groggy
groggy
25,159 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gredin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gredin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gredin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gredin is uncommon French at frequency #74,840 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁə.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gredin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gredin, spelled G-R-E-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Personne malfaisante, dénuée de toute valeur morale, ne méritant aucune considération.
- 2Coquin ; canaille ; fripon.
- 3Petit épagneul anglais à long poils noirs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gredin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gredins qui opèrent ne cherchent qu’à soulager de numéraire à leur bénéfice quelques Trésors publics, nullement à nuire à leur pays.
Voleur! Gredin! Filou! Bandit! Salopard! Elle trouve encore une quatorzaine d'autres épithètes du même tonneau. Tout en vitupérant, elle ramasse le gallinacé et l'ausculte.
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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