gréviste
\ɡʁe.vist\
The verdict
“gréviste” is an uncommon French word, ranked #60,060 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,060
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui, celle qui fait grève.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gréviste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁe.vist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gréviste” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gréviste is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁe.vist\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,060 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celui, celle qui fait grève.".
gréviste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gréviste, spelled G-R-É-V-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui fait grève.
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 “gréviste”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-É-V-I-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁe.vist\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.