greffon
\ɡʁɛ.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“greffon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,925
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’un végétal qu’on greffe sur la tige d’un autre végétal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-greffon · greffon · French
greffon · rank #47,925 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,925
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gratton
Nearest frequency peer: gratton (-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 « greffon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- graisser
graisser
52,078 corpus weight
- gratton
gratton
52,077 corpus weight
- greffon
greffon
52,076 corpus weight
- groom
groom
52,075 corpus weight
- grossissent
grossissent
52,074 corpus weight
- gruau
gruau
52,073 corpus weight
What this shows « greffon » 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 | greffon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « greffon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around greffon (IPA \ɡʁɛ.fɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,925 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for greffon, with forms such as "gerffon", "ggreffon", and "greffno". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "griffin", "griffon", "greffe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is greffon, spelled G-R-E-F-F-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un végétal qu’on greffe sur la tige d’un autre végétal.
- 2Partie de tissu transplantée dans l’opération de la greffe.
- 3Partie de logiciel optionnelle, aussi appelée plugin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greffon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’aide de votre greffoir, vous prélevez le greffon c’est-à-dire un petit morceau d’écorce avec un œil sur le rameau. Les greffons sont choisis sur des arbres sains et prélevés sur des bois de l’année précédente.
Sur les jeunes pousses s’étant développées en cours de traitement, ont été prélevés soit des greffons, soit plus rarement des micro-boutures n’excédant pas 5 mm de long.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gerffon
- ggreffon
- greffno
- greffonn
- grefofn
- grefon
- grfefon
- grreffon
- rgeffon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of greffon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).