grès
French, noun
grès is spelled G-R-È-S (4 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grès is a French masculine noun meaning “sandstone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, grés is a different word: “plural of gré”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Roche détritique formée par l’agglomération de nombreux petits grains unis par un ciment naturel de…”.
What does grès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesandstone
- 2
masculinestoneware
noun
- 1
plural of gré
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Roche détritique formée par l’agglomération de nombreux petits grains unis par un ciment naturel de composition variable (siliceux, calcaire, etc.). 2. Abrasif obtenu avec de la poudre de roche de grès. 3. Glaise mêlée de sable fin, et dont on fait des poteries. 4. Poterie confectionnée avec cette terre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grès
- grais alternative archaic
- gray alternative archaic
- grés alternative obsolete
- grez alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grès
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grès in French?
grès appears 4.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).