grésil
\ɡʁe.zil\
The verdict
“grésil” is uncommon French (frequency #93,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,838
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite grêle fort menue et dure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gresil · grésil · French
grésil · rank #93,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,838
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grund
Nearest frequency peer: Grund (-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 « grésil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- griser
griser
6,166 corpus weight
- grizzli
grizzli
6,165 corpus weight
- Grund
Grund
6,164 corpus weight
- grésil
grésil
6,163 corpus weight
- Guilvinec
Guilvinec
6,161 corpus weight
- guinguettes
guinguettes
6,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grésil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grésil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁe.zil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grésil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grésil is uncommon French at frequency #93,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁe.zil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for grésil in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grésil, spelled G-R-É-S-I-L.
Definition
- 1Petite grêle fort menue et dure.
- 2Granules formés de neige et de cristaux de glace.
- 3Bruit semblable à celui d’une précipitation de ce météore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grésil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est pas de la neige qui tombe, c’est du grésil.
" Un déluge glacé, gentiment assaisonné de grésil, nous cingla presque à l'horizontale dans un mugissement insensé." (Jean Philippe Jaworski, le chevalier aux épines, tome 2, le conte de l'assassin)
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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