grever
\ɡʁə.ve\
The verdict
“grever” is uncommon French (frequency #82,082 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,082
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire plier sous un poids trop lourd, en parlant de charges financières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grever · grever · French
grever · rank #82,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,082
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grenet
Nearest frequency peer: Grenet (-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 « grever »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goûtée
goûtée
17,923 corpus weight
- gratificati…
gratifications
17,921 corpus weight
- Grenet
Grenet
17,920 corpus weight
- grever
grever
17,919 corpus weight
- grison
grison
17,918 corpus weight
- grouillante
grouillante
17,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grever » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « grever » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grever is uncommon French at frequency #82,082 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁə.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pays est grevé d’impôts.
Les frais d’éducation grèvent lourdement le budget d’une famille nombreuse.
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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