grignotage
\ɡʁi.ɲɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“grignotage” is uncommon French (frequency #62,321 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de grignoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grignotage · grignotage · French
grignotage · rank #62,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,321
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH griffures
Nearest frequency peer: griffures (-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 « grignotage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- grive
grive
37,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grignotage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grignotage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.ɲɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grignotage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grignotage is uncommon French at frequency #62,321 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.ɲɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de grignoter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for grignotage in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grignotage, spelled G-R-I-G-N-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de grignoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grignotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grignotage est souvent une cause d'obésité.
Lorsque Manuela paraît, ma loge se transforme en palais et nos grignotages de parias en festins de monarques.
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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