griffures
\ɡʁi.fyʁ\
The verdict
“griffures” is uncommon French (frequency #62,320 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,320
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de griffure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-griffures · griffures · French
griffures · rank #62,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,320
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gribouillis
Nearest frequency peer: gribouillis (-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 « griffures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gravelle
gravelle
37,684 corpus weight
- grazie
grazie
37,683 corpus weight
- gribouillis
gribouillis
37,682 corpus weight
- griffures
griffures
37,681 corpus weight
- grignotage
grignotage
37,680 corpus weight
- grillo
grillo
37,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « griffures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | griffures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.fyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « griffures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
griffures is uncommon French at frequency #62,320 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.fyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de griffure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for griffures in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is griffures, spelled G-R-I-F-F-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de griffure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how griffures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En cas de griffures, morsures ou piqûres, vérifiez toujours la validité de la vaccination antitétanique de votre enfant.
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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