Grenadines
\ɡʁə.na.din\
The verdict
“Grenadines” is uncommon French (frequency #66,770 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,770
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel du sud des Antilles situé entre l'île de Saint-Vincent et l'île de Grenade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grenadines · Grenadines · French
Grenadines · rank #66,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,770
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Granet
Nearest frequency peer: Granet (-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 « Grenadines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gosselies
Gosselies
33,234 corpus weight
- goujat
goujat
33,233 corpus weight
- Granet
Granet
33,232 corpus weight
- Grenadines
Grenadines
33,231 corpus weight
- gribouille
gribouille
33,230 corpus weight
- grupo
grupo
33,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grenadines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grenadines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.na.din\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grenadines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grenadines is uncommon French at frequency #66,770 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡʁə.na.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archipel du sud des Antilles situé entre l'île de Saint-Vincent et l'île de Grenade.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Grenadines, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Grenadines, spelled G-R-E-N-A-D-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Archipel du sud des Antilles situé entre l'île de Saint-Vincent et l'île de Grenade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grenadines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à sa collection de tableaux, estimée à 750 millions d’euros, elle est en partie regroupée dans le port franc de Genève mais détenue via une société immatriculée dans l’archipel des Grenadines pour minimiser l’impôt sur les plus-values en cas de cession.
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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