grêlons
\ɡʁɛ.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“grêlons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,581 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,581
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grêlon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grelons · grêlons · French
grêlons · rank #61,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,581
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GRS
Nearest frequency peer: GRS (-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 « grêlons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grisou
grisou
38,423 corpus weight
- groovy
groovy
38,422 corpus weight
- GRS
GRS
38,421 corpus weight
- grêlons
grêlons
38,420 corpus weight
- guan
guan
38,419 corpus weight
- gunner
gunner
38,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grêlons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grêlons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grêlons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grêlons is uncommon French at frequency #61,581 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de grêlon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for grêlons in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grêlons, spelled G-R-Ê-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grêlon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grêlons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’étaient pas des grêlons, mais de véritables plaques de glace.
Une poignée de grêlons lui flagella la face et il resta un moment à bout de souffle et presque sans connaissance.
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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