grève générale
\ɡʁɛv ʒe.ne.ʁal\
The verdict
“grève générale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Action coordonnée de cessation du travail de tous les travailleurs d’une profession ou d’un pays, pour obtenir satisfaction à leurs revendications.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grève générale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛv ʒe.ne.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grève générale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grève générale is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛv ʒe.ne.ʁal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action coordonnée de cessation du travail de tous les travailleurs d’une profession ou d’un pays, pour obtenir satisfaction à leurs revendications.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grève générale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 grève générale, spelled G-R-È-V-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action coordonnée de cessation du travail de tous les travailleurs d’une profession ou d’un pays, pour obtenir satisfaction à leurs revendications.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-È-V-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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