grêlier
\ɡʁɛ.lje\
The verdict
“grêlier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne pièce d’artillerie qu’on chargeait de balles et de ferrailles, et qui en chassait comme une grêle, lorsqu’elle était tirée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grelier · grêlier · French
grêlier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grêlier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grêlier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grêlier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne pièce d’artillerie qu’on chargeait de balles et de ferrailles, et qui en chassait comme une grêle, lorsqu’elle était tirée.".
grêlier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grêlier, spelled G-R-Ê-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ancienne pièce d’artillerie qu’on chargeait de balles et de ferrailles, et qui en chassait comme une grêle, lorsqu’elle était tirée.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.