grégaire
\ɡʁe.ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“grégaire” is uncommon French (frequency #56,003 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,003
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une espèce vivant en groupe ou en communauté sans nécessairement présenter une organisation sociale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gregaire · grégaire · French
grégaire · rank #56,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,003
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grognements
Nearest frequency peer: grognements (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grégaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goupille
goupille
44,002 corpus weight
- grease
grease
44,000 corpus weight
- grognements
grognements
43,999 corpus weight
- grégaire
grégaire
43,998 corpus weight
- Guangdong
Guangdong
43,997 corpus weight
- généralissi…
généralissime
43,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grégaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grégaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁe.ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grégaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grégaire is uncommon French at frequency #56,003 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁe.ɡɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grégaire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grégaire, spelled G-R-É-G-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une espèce vivant en groupe ou en communauté sans nécessairement présenter une organisation sociale.
- 2Qui pousse des êtres à former des groupes et à avoir les mêmes comportements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grégaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que les aigrettes se nourrissent essentiellement dans les milieux aquatiques, le garde-bœufs est une espèce grégaire terrestre qui vit en association étroite avec le bétail et les ongulés sauvages qu'il suit.
Cependant il ne s’agit pas de votes qui seraient tellement unanimes qu’on pourrait les croire grégaires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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