grenouilles
\ɡʁə.nuj\
The verdict
“grenouilles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,896. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,896
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grenouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grenouilles · grenouilles · French
grenouilles · rank #16,896 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,896
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH graal
Nearest frequency peer: graal (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « grenouilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gore
gore
83,108 corpus weight
- gourmand
gourmand
83,107 corpus weight
- graal
graal
83,106 corpus weight
- grenouilles
grenouilles
83,105 corpus weight
- gueuler
gueuler
83,104 corpus weight
- généraliser
généraliser
83,103 corpus weight
What this shows « grenouilles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grenouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.nuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grenouilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around grenouilles (IPA \ɡʁə.nuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,896 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de grenouille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for grenouilles, with forms such as "gernouilles", "ggrenouilles", and "grennouilles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "grenouille", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 grenouilles, spelled G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grenouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grenouilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
les religieux du couvent de Nice ne mangeaient guère que des sardines, des grenouilles, des merlusses ou autres poissons, des vermicelles (fidel), des choux, des oignons, des artichauts… agrémentés de quelques condiments : moutarde, safran, poivre ; et s’ils achetaient parfois un peu de beurre, des œufs, voire un chapon, c’était toujours pour un frère mal…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gernouilles
- ggrenouilles
- grennouilles
- grenoiulles
- grenouilels
- grenouiles
- grenouilless
- grenouillse
- grenouliles
- grenuoilles
- greonuilles
- grneouilles
- grrenouilles
- rgenouilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grenouilles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).