Grexit
\ɡʁɛk.sit\
The verdict
“Grexit” is uncommon French (frequency #93,832 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,832
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scénario de sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grexit · Grexit · French
Grexit · rank #93,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH granularité
Nearest frequency peer: granularité (-2 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 « Grexit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gramm
gramm
6,173 corpus weight
- granularité
granularité
6,171 corpus weight
- Grexit
Grexit
6,169 corpus weight
- grimpez
grimpez
6,167 corpus weight
- griser
griser
6,166 corpus weight
- grizzli
grizzli
6,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grexit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grexit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛk.sit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grexit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grexit is uncommon French at frequency #93,832 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡʁɛk.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Scénario de sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro.".
Grexit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is Grexit, spelled G-R-E-X-I-T.
Definition
- 1Scénario de sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grexit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La menace allemande de ne rien faire pour empêcher le « Grexit », la sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro, publiée ce lundi par une indiscrétion de l’hebdomadaire Der Spiegel, a déjà fait couler beaucoup d’encre.
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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