griffes
\ɡʁif\
The verdict
“griffes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,588
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de griffe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-griffes · griffes · French
griffes · rank #12,588 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,588
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gratter
Nearest frequency peer: gratter (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « griffes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gorges
gorges
87,417 corpus weight
- gothique
gothique
87,416 corpus weight
- gratter
gratter
87,414 corpus weight
- griffes
griffes
87,413 corpus weight
- has
has
87,412 corpus weight
- humaniste
humaniste
87,410 corpus weight
What this shows « griffes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | griffes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « griffes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around griffes (IPA \ɡʁif\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,588 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de griffe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for griffes, with forms such as "ggriffes", "girffes", and "grfifes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "grises", "grilles", "griffin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 griffes, spelled G-R-I-F-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de griffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how griffes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La liste de ce que je vomis est plus longue que la barbe de votre Seigneur sénile. Les toilettages, la coupe des griffes, la tonte, les manteaux haute couture pour bichons, chihuahuas et caniches, les croquettes spéciales amaigrissantes, raffermissantes, beauté du pelage et bla bla bla, les muselières, les colliers cloutés, diamantés, électriques, les édu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggriffes
- girffes
- grfifes
- grifefs
- grifes
- griffess
- griffse
- grriffes
- rgiffes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of griffes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).