greffe
\ɡʁɛf\
The verdict
“greffe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,668
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
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Index FR-greffe · greffe · French
greffe · rank #9,668 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,668
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gardant
Nearest frequency peer: gardant (-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 « greffe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fusée
fusée
90,336 corpus weight
- Gabon
Gabon
90,335 corpus weight
- gardant
gardant
90,334 corpus weight
- greffe
greffe
90,333 corpus weight
- Hollandais
Hollandais
90,332 corpus weight
- homosexuel
homosexuel
90,331 corpus weight
What this shows « greffe » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « greffe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around greffe (IPA \ɡʁɛf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,668 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for greffe, with forms such as "gerffe", "ggreffe", and "grefe". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "grève", "griffe", "griffes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is greffe, spelled G-R-E-F-F-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Greffe du tribunal de première instance, de la cour d’appel.
Ils me conduisent chez le juge d’instruction, qui instrumentait dans un greffe obscur, en face de ma geôle, de l’autre côté de la cour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gerffe
- ggreffe
- grefe
- grefef
- grfefe
- grreffe
- rgeffe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of greffe - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).