grelotter
\ɡʁə.lɔ.te\
The verdict
“grelotter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trembler de froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grelotter · grelotter · French
grelotter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | grelotter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.lɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grelotter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grelotter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁə.lɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
grelotter has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 grelotter, spelled G-R-E-L-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Trembler de froid.
- 2Trembler, frémir, de peur, d'espoir.
- 3Émettre une lumière vacillante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grelotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je grelottais de tous mes membres, et mes dents cliquetaient.
« Ça fait du bien de marcher par ce froid-là », dit Matoussaint, — qui veut me faire croire qu’il s’amuse, mais qui grelotte, comme un lustre qu’on époussette.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.