greffier
\ɡʁɛ.fje\
The verdict
“greffier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,640
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier public préposé au greffe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-greffier · greffier · French
greffier · rank #21,640 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,640
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grandissent
Nearest frequency peer: grandissent (-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 « greffier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glaçons
glaçons
78,365 corpus weight
- gogo
gogo
78,364 corpus weight
- gorgée
gorgée
78,363 corpus weight
- grandissent
grandissent
78,362 corpus weight
- greffier
greffier
78,361 corpus weight
- guest
guest
78,359 corpus weight
What this shows « greffier » 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 | greffier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.fje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « greffier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around greffier (IPA \ɡʁɛ.fje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,640 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for greffier, with forms such as "gerffier", "ggreffier", and "greffeir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "grenier", "greffiers", "greffe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is greffier, spelled G-R-E-F-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Officier public préposé au greffe.
- 2Celui qui prend note et tient le registre de ses notes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greffier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le greffier d’une juridiction qui rend une décision impliquant l’obligation pour une personne de s’immatriculer doit notifier cette décision au greffier du tribunal de commerce dans le ressort duquel l’intéressé a son siège ou son établissement principal.
Le greffier est la personne responsable des services administratifs d'un tribunal. À ce titre, il remplit principalement des fonctions administratives qui vont de la préparation des audiences à la planification des agendas de la cour, la transcription des témoignages et la formation des jurés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gerffier
- ggreffier
- greffeir
- greffierr
- greffire
- grefier
- grefifer
- grfefier
- grreffier
- rgeffier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of greffier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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