grenadine
\ɡʁə.na.din\
The verdict
“grenadine” is uncommon French (frequency #50,244 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,244
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suc de grenade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grenadine · grenadine · French
grenadine · rank #50,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,244
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grammairien
Nearest frequency peer: grammairien (-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 « grenadine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goss
goss
49,760 corpus weight
- goth
goth
49,759 corpus weight
- grammairien
grammairien
49,758 corpus weight
- grenadine
grenadine
49,757 corpus weight
- grignote
grignote
49,756 corpus weight
- grossisseme…
grossissement
49,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grenadine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grenadine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.na.din\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grenadine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grenadine is uncommon French at frequency #50,244 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁə.na.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grenadine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is grenadine, spelled G-R-E-N-A-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Suc de grenade.
- 2Préparation sirupeuse industrielle à base de mélange de jus de fruits rouges, et destiné à être diluée pour l’alimentation humaine.
- 3Cordonnet de soie qu’on emploie, entre autre, dans la fabrication de la dentelle noire.
- 4Tissu léger fait de soie noire.
- 5Ancien synonyme de mannitol, car on l'avait extraite de la racine du grenadier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grenadine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sirop de grenadine.
Sur la table, près de la chevelure de la fille, un verre à moitié plein d'un liquide dont Louis se demanda, à cause de sa couleur, si c'était de la grenadine.
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); 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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