gribouiller
\ɡʁi.bu.je\
The verdict
“gribouiller” is uncommon French (frequency #99,162 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,162
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrire, dessiner ou peindre quelque chose d’une manière confuse et informe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gribouiller · gribouiller · French
gribouiller · rank #99,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,162
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH groux
Nearest frequency peer: groux (+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 « gribouiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graveleuses
graveleuses
842 corpus weight
- gribouiller
gribouiller
839 corpus weight
- groux
groux
838 corpus weight
- grown
grown
837 corpus weight
- Guerini
Guerini
835 corpus weight
- Guilbaud
Guilbaud
834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gribouiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gribouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gribouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gribouiller is uncommon French at frequency #99,162 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁi.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écrire, dessiner ou peindre quelque chose d’une manière confuse et informe.".
gribouiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gribouiller, spelled G-R-I-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écrire, dessiner ou peindre quelque chose d’une manière confuse et informe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gribouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gribouiller, faire mes pages, c'étaient là de saines formules, m'épargnant toute exaltation.
Le téléphone sonna trois fois et Max parla longuement, en fumant. Il gribouillait sur une feuille de papier près de l'appareil.
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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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