green
\ɡʁin\
The verdict
“green” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,985 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,985
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zone d’un parcours de golf, où se trouve le trou.
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 | green |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “green” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for green is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁin\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,985 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Zone d’un parcours de golf, où se trouve le trou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for green, with forms such as "geren", "ggreen", and "greenn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Greg", "grey", "grès", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is green, spelled G-R-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Zone d’un parcours de golf, où se trouve le trou.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geren,ggreen,greenn,gren,grene,grreen,rgeen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of green - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “green”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-E-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁin\ (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. green 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.