griffée
\ɡʁi.fe\
The verdict
“griffée” is uncommon French (frequency #85,768 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,768
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de griffé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-griffee · griffée · French
griffée · rank #85,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Greuze
Nearest frequency peer: Greuze (-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 « griffée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grattoir
grattoir
14,237 corpus weight
- grattoirs
grattoirs
14,236 corpus weight
- gravissant
gravissant
14,235 corpus weight
- Greuze
Greuze
14,234 corpus weight
- griffée
griffée
14,233 corpus weight
- groupant
groupant
14,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « griffée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | griffée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « griffée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
griffée is uncommon French at frequency #85,768 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁi.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de griffé.".
griffée has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 griffée, spelled G-R-I-F-F-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de griffé.
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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