grenouille
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,973
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
grenouille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Amphibien anoure à taille mince et à peau lisse, sauteur et nageur grâce à ses pattes arrière longues et palmées, qui vit ordinairement dans les marais et les étangs. Pronounced \ɡʁə.nuj\. Often confused with grouille and grenouilles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grenouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.nuj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grenouille is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁə.nuj\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,973 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for grenouille, with forms such as "gernouille", "ggrenouille", and "grennouille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "grouille", "grenouilles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grenouille, spelled G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amphibien anoure à taille mince et à peau lisse, sauteur et nageur grâce à ses pattes arrière longues et palmées, qui vit ordinairement dans les marais et les étangs.
- 2Sorte de tirelire en forme de grenouille.
- 3Argent déposé dans cette tirelire, fonds de réserve d’une association.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Sa posture n’est pas très arrêtée, généralement représentée de profil, elle est souvent montrée vue de dessus les pattes écartées du corps.
- 5Chacune des parties supérieures d’une cloche, servant à la suspendre.
- 6Lésion cutanée consécutive à un séjour prolongé dans l'eau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gernouille,ggrenouille,grennouille,grenoiulle,grenouile,grenouilel,grenoulile,grenuoille,greonuille,grneouille,grrenouille,rgenouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grenouille
Misspelling Variants of "grenouille"
Frequency rank: #11,973 in French
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