grenaille
\ɡʁə.nɑj\
The verdict
“grenaille” is uncommon French (frequency #80,257 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,257
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rebuts de graine qui servent principalement à nourrir la volaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grenaille · grenaille · French
grenaille · rank #80,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,257
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimpa
Nearest frequency peer: grimpa (+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 « grenaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gord
gord
19,748 corpus weight
- goude
goude
19,747 corpus weight
- grasshopper
grasshopper
19,746 corpus weight
- grenaille
grenaille
19,744 corpus weight
- grimpa
grimpa
19,743 corpus weight
- grincent
grincent
19,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grenaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grenaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.nɑj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grenaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grenaille is uncommon French at frequency #80,257 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁə.nɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grenaille, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 grenaille, spelled G-R-E-N-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Rebuts de graine qui servent principalement à nourrir la volaille.
- 2Métal réduit en menus grains.
- 3Très peu de restant de quelque chose.
- 4Pomme de terre de petit calibre (moins de 3,5 cm).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grenaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des troupes de canards gourmands guettaient dans le bief les poissons assommés par la roue, et les poules, groupées sous une petite fenêtre, attendaient la grenaille qui, de temps en temps, leur tombait du ciel.
Halle aux grains et grenailles. — Marchand de grains et grenailles.
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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