gréement
\ɡʁe.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“gréement” is uncommon French (frequency #55,319 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,319
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de gréer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-greement · gréement · French
gréement · rank #55,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,319
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gts
Nearest frequency peer: Gts (+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 « gréement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gramsci
Gramsci
44,686 corpus weight
- grattent
grattent
44,685 corpus weight
- grattes
grattes
44,684 corpus weight
- gréement
gréement
44,682 corpus weight
- Gts
Gts
44,681 corpus weight
- Guillotière
Guillotière
44,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gréement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gréement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁe.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gréement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gréement is uncommon French at frequency #55,319 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁe.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gréement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 gréement, spelled G-R-É-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de gréer.
- 2Ensemble des choses qui servent à gréer.
- 3Type de mâture et voilure d'un navire à voile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gréement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gréement d’un yacht, d’une goélette, d’un navire.
Mac Nap et ses hommes travaillaient assidûment à la lueur de résines enflammées, pendant que les autres s'occupaient du gréement dans les magasins de la factorerie.
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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