grever
\ɡʁə.ve\
The verdict
“grever” is an uncommon French word, ranked #82,082 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #82,082
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire plier sous un poids trop lourd, en parlant de charges financières.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁə.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grever” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grever is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁə.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #82,082 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grever, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 grever, spelled G-R-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire plier sous un poids trop lourd, en parlant de charges financières.
- 2Assujettir une chose à un droit.
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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Using “grever”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-E-V-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁə.ve\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.