Greuze

name

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The verdict

“Greuze” is uncommon French (frequency #85,767 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,767
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-greuze · Greuze · French

Greuze · rank #85,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,767
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gravissant

Nearest frequency peer: gravissant (-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 « Greuze »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Greuze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Greuze
PropertyValue
HeadwordGreuze
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#85,767
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Greuze » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Greuzetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « gravissant » (#85,766), « griffée » (#85,768), « grattoirs » (#85,765). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Greuze » est au #85,767. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Greuze is uncommon French at frequency #85,767 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Greuze, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Greuze, spelled G-R-E-U-Z-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.
  2. 2
    Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805, peintre français.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Greuze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Oh ! mais une merveille, monsieur Moricet ! un vrai Greuze !… C’est jeune, c’est frais… ça n’a pas encore roulé.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Greuze"?
"Greuze" is spelled G-R-E-U-Z-E.
What does "Greuze" mean?
As a proper noun, "Greuze" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Greuze" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Greuze", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list