greluche
\ɡʁə.lyʃ\
The verdict
“greluche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune fille, jeune femme aux mœurs légères ou sotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-greluche · greluche · French
greluche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | greluche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.lyʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « greluche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
greluche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁə.lyʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for greluche in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is greluche, spelled G-R-E-L-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune fille, jeune femme aux mœurs légères ou sotte.
- 2Femme (employé dans le langage courant pour désigner une attitude, un comportement caractéristique de « râleuse »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greluche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu es une affreuse petite greluche qui se prélasse, tandis que son homme tourne en bourrique.
Écoutez, les greluches. Il est 11 heures. On va pas paumer notre soirée à faire les guignols avec des boules au bout des bras. Comme de toutes façons ça va se terminer à l’horizontale, autant y aller tout de suite.
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.