grelot
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,836
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
grelot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite boule de métal creuse et percée de trous, dans laquelle il y a un morceau de métal qui la fait résonner dès qu’on la remue. Pronounced \ɡʁə.lo\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grelot is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁə.lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,836 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grelot in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grelot, spelled G-R-E-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite boule de métal creuse et percée de trous, dans laquelle il y a un morceau de métal qui la fait résonner dès qu’on la remue.
- 2Petite boule de métal creuse et percée de trous, dans laquelle il y a un morceau de métal qui la fait résonner dès qu’on la remue.
- 3Fleur à la corolle actinomorphe gamopétale dont la forme rappelle un grelot.
- 4Petite pomme de terre.
- 5Organe sonore caudale constitué d'une série de grandes écailles imparfaitement fixées que l'on trouve chez certains serpents du continent américain.
- 6Meuble représentant l’objet du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de cloche, clochette et grillet.
- 7Une des quatre enseignes d’un jeu de cartes germanique ou suisse, ainsi nommée parce que les cartes de cette couleur sont marquées de grelots stylisés.
- 8Téléphone.
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Frequency rank: #60,836 in French
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