greffe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,668
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
greffe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bureau d’un tribunal où sont délivrées et conservées les minutes des jugements, des arrêts, celles de divers actes de procédure, comme enquêtes, rapports d’experts, etc. et où se font certaines déc... Pronounced \ɡʁɛf\. It ranks #9,668 in French word frequency. Often confused with grève and griffe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for greffe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛf\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,668 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for greffe, with forms such as "gerffe", "ggreffe", and "grefe". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "grève", "griffe", "griffes", 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 greffe, spelled G-R-E-F-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bureau d’un tribunal où sont délivrées et conservées les minutes des jugements, des arrêts, celles de divers actes de procédure, comme enquêtes, rapports d’experts, etc. et où se font certaines déclarations, certains dépôts.
- 2Secrétariat d'une mairie.
- 3Secrétaire de mairie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gerffe,ggreffe,grefe,grefef,grfefe,grreffe,rgeffe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for greffe
Misspelling Variants of "greffe"
Frequency rank: #9,668 in French
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